Run Garbage collector

Try it out yourself.

bodhi wrote:

What does the Run Garbage collector button on the bottom right of IDEA mean? AFAIK, there is no way to force garbage collection.

System.gc();

N.

In theory that doesn't force a GC (as per the javadocs) however in practice
it does on Sun VMs, especially if called a few times in a row.

bodhi wrote:

>> What does the Run Garbage collector button on the bottom right of
>> IDEA mean? AFAIK, there is no way to force garbage collection.
>>

System.gc();

N.

It asks the VM politely to do (some) garbage collection.

RRS