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Sjeiti
garbage collection
Feb 13th, 2008, 3:50pm  
I know Java should clean up itself but I was wondering if there was a way to force garbage collection and free up memory.

I have an applet that renders images. The first renders fine, but after a few renders it will slow down considerabily. Even though the large objects (that might cause it) are overwritten for each new render (I also checked for any other references but there aren't any), and so memory should be cleaned up.

Reloading Firefox doesn't help, I have to quit it and restart before I get the normal framerate back.
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Daniel Shiffman
Re: garbage collection
Reply #1 - Feb 13th, 2008, 5:35pm  
You can force garbage collection with:

System.gc();

http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/java/lang/System.html#gc()
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Sjeiti
Re: garbage collection
Reply #2 - Feb 13th, 2008, 6:20pm  
ah ok...
thanks...
(love your moviemaker btw)
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