sridevi

• Oct 26th, 2005

 

garbage collector collects all the unreachable objects and because of this clens up the memory which is used by unreachable objects

Shiv Shankar

• Nov 25th, 2005

 

Grabage Collector is least priority thread. The task for the GC is to clear the memory used by the no reference objects in the heap.we can't force the GC to come but we can place the request to come i.e by calling System.gc() or Runtime.gc() methods.

dev

• Feb 15th, 2006

 

tks a lot for giving nice answer

plz tell me what is the difference b/n Runtime.gc() and System.gc()