Thanks, Sean. Yes, I've wondered why JVM's seem to be installed by default with the ability for any programmer to call a Garbage Collection. I've never heard anyone say it was good to do (though I don't doubt there could be cases where it would be good).
And I agree about protecting the servers from well-meaning programmers ... :-) Chris Norloff ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: Sean Corfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: cf-talk@houseoffusion.com Date: Fri, 20 May 2005 07:48:18 -0700 >On 5/20/05, Chris Norloff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> It turns out it was probably an explicit garbage collection call from one of >> the applications. As soon as I disabled the ability to explicitly call a GC >> (just let the JVM manage its own memory) the GC dropped to once an hour on >> an idle server. > >I'm sure you're aware that explicitly calling GC is a Bad Thing(tm) >since it interferes with the JVM's ability to plan and manage GC on >its own schedule. > >I'd probably go as far as recommending that folks disable explicit GC >in general to prevent misguided programmers from tanking your systems! >(and even some third party Java code might do this so it doesn't even >have to be your own code) >-- >Sean A Corfield -- http://corfield.org/ >Team Fusebox -- http://fusebox.org/ >Got Gmail? -- I have 50, yes 50, invites to give away! > >"If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive." >-- Margaret Atwood > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Discover CFTicket - The leading ColdFusion Help Desk and Trouble Ticket application http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=48 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:207544 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
