[ajug-members] java object allocation and memory

[Wilson, Jeff]

Unless you are doing Real-Time programming, you shouldn't be calling GC
anyways. It runs whenever the VM wants to run it.

Predicting memory allocation is tricky in Java. The VM reserves all
kinds of memory areas [eden area, permanent area, others] and uses those
to allocate objects. In general the VM uses those pre-allocated memory
areas until it needs more, and then allocates more memory from the OS. 

Also, objects are typically very small.

+jeff (MJW)
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-----Original Message-----
From: mcdaniel [mailto:521 at ofig.org] 
Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2008 8:20 PM
To: ajug-members at ajug.org
Subject: Re: [ajug-members] java object allocation and memory

this makes it look like i was calling on the gc call to free memory but 
i was not; i did this w/ zero/none of them too- what keeps the 
freeMemory call's value close like those are?  why does it not go up
more?

barclay

mcdaniel wrote:
> why does the free-memory not change much with object allocation? - i 
> keep playing with this and don't see it...
> -attached-
>
> barclay
>
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