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Re: gc is freeing and claiming memory

From Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
Newsgroups comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject Re: gc is freeing and claiming memory
Date 2016-08-13 16:35 +0200
Message-ID <8737m8spnb.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de> (permalink)
References <87oa4yks54.fsf@Equus.decebal.nl>

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* Cecil Westerhof:

> So while on the one hand there is 9 MB of memory freed, but at the
> same time there is another 4 MB reserved. (I have seen a bigger
> difference, there was on the one hand 4 MB freed and at the same time
> 32 MB extra reserved. But I did not save that.)
>
> What is happening here?

Maybe something related to GC ergonomics.  The JVM might try to resize
the heap to avoid too frequent collections.  For details, you need to
switch on GC debugging messages and look at GC statistics instead
overall system statistics.

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gc is freeing and claiming memory Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2016-08-12 15:56 +0200
  Re: gc is freeing and claiming memory Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> - 2016-08-13 16:35 +0200

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