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From: Jim Janney <jjanney@shell.xmission.com>
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"sl@exabyte" <sb5309@hotmail.com> writes:

> I gather that PHP daemon suffers from memory leak problem due to its garbage 
> collector mechanism.
>
> Since java also adopts the garbage collector mechanism, would java daemon 
> suffers from the same memory problem ?

Probably not: not all implementations of GC are equal, and you can't
generalize from one to another.  For what it's worth, Twitter is in the
process of migrating from Ruby to Java due to problems with memory
management, and claims to be happy with the results:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/11/08/twitter_epic_traffic_saved_by_java/

-- 
Jim Janney