Re: [algogeeks] HOW GARBAGE COLLECTOR WORKS IN JAVA

2011-08-01 Thread coder dumca
@ vaibhav when we are sure that we dont need a particular object we can call gc On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 1:46 AM, Deepthi Srinivasan deeps1...@gmail.comwrote: Garbage collector'll never run according to our whims and fancies :P It'll run only when it wants (mostly when it senses that memory

Re: [algogeeks] HOW GARBAGE COLLECTOR WORKS IN JAVA

2011-07-31 Thread Deepthi Srinivasan
Garbage collection is totally JVM dependent... Some JVMs may use a mark and sweep algorithm. The first thing u should understand abt Java's garbage collection is totally unpredicatble. You cant really predict when garbage collection is done. If and when the JVM decides that garbage coll should be

Re: [algogeeks] HOW GARBAGE COLLECTOR WORKS IN JAVA

2011-07-31 Thread siddharth srivastava
Hi Vaibhav On 30 July 2011 23:40, vaibhav shukla vaibhav200...@gmail.com wrote: please give a glimps of how garbage collection is done in java. how *System.gc()* works ? Please do not use ALL CAPS in subject line. It is a bit scary :) -- best wishes!! Vaibhav -- You

Re: [algogeeks] HOW GARBAGE COLLECTOR WORKS IN JAVA

2011-07-31 Thread coder dumca
generally jvm runs on following occasions 1: periodicaliy 2: when program is about to run out of memory the JVM runs and finallize the objects. 3: when we call using System.gc or Runtime.getruntime.gc pls correct me if i m wrong On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 11:10 AM, vaibhav shukla

Re: [algogeeks] HOW GARBAGE COLLECTOR WORKS IN JAVA

2011-07-31 Thread vaibhav shukla
@mr coder : y do we need to call garbage collector explicitly when it works automatically ? On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 11:07 PM, coder dumca coder.du...@gmail.com wrote: generally jvm runs on following occasions 1: periodicaliy 2: when program is about to run out of memory the JVM runs and

[algogeeks] HOW GARBAGE COLLECTOR WORKS IN JAVA

2011-07-30 Thread vaibhav shukla
please give a glimps of how garbage collection is done in java. how *System.gc()* works ? -- best wishes!! Vaibhav -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Algorithm Geeks group. To post to this group, send email to algogeeks@googlegroups.com. To