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How can we call garbage collection (GC) explicitly in Java?
When there are no more references to an object, the object is finalized and when the Garbage Collection starts these finalized objects get collected this will done automatically by the JVM. We can call garbage collection directly but it doesn't guarantee that the GC will start executing immediately.
We can call the Garbage Collection explicitly in two ways
- System.gc() method
- Runtime.gc() method
The java.lang.Runtime.freeMemory() method returns the amount of free memory in the Java Virtual Machine (JVM). Calling the gc() method may result in increasing the value returned by the freeMemory.
Example
public class GarbageCollectionTest {
public static void main(String args[]) {
System.out.println(Runtime.getRuntime().freeMemory());
for (int i=0; i<= 100000; i++) {
Double d = new Double(300);
}
System.out.println(Runtime.getRuntime().freeMemory());
System.gc();
System.out.println(Runtime.getRuntime().freeMemory());
}
}Output
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Updated on: 30-Jul-2019
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