How to force Java garbage collection While a developer can never actually force Java garbage collection, there are ways to make the JVM prioritize memory management functions. In review, five ways to ...

Automatic free memory management, or garbage collection, is inherent to platforms like Java and Microsoft’s .NET. In the latter, “managed” applications like those written in C# utilize ...

The primary drawback to garbage collection is that it freezes all active threads when the memory reclamation phase takes place. A full garbage collection cycle will run for several seconds -- or ...

Memory garbage collection is only one of the applications of reference counting; it is also used for deallocation control of system objects, Windows COM objects, and file system blocks or files.

Tackling memory limitations imposed on Java applications, Terracotta on Tuesday will offer what it describes as a breakthrough in solving the "universal problem" of Java garbage collection.

"We literally stumbled across this product," Pandey said "Our servers are written in Java, and our server engineers were working on ways of providing bigger heap sizes. When solved the problem for ...

"We literally stumbled across this product," Pandey said "Our servers are written in Java, and our server engineers were working on ways of providing bigger heap sizes. When solved the problem for ...

Terracotta has released to beta a new Java addon for the Enterprise version of its Ehcache distributed Java caching software designed to free Java applications from the memory and performance ...