gc logs [Full GC (System)

[Y. S. Ramakrishna]

On 02/10/11 10:46, Kirk wrote:
> sed also works well in getting rid of calls to System.gc()... and it guarantees that it won't accidentally show up again.
> 
> Regards,
> Kirk
> 
> On Feb 10, 2011, at 7:25 PM, Peter Schuller wrote:
> 
>>> please help me understand in following 2 line if
>>> Full GC (System)
>>> means this is caused due to System.gc() call ?
>> If you're having trouble with code calling System.gc(),
>> -XX:+DisableExplicitGC may be an option. But that will also disable
>> e.g. jconsole triggered GC:s (I think).

a hack ;-) to cause an explicit gc even when it's disabled
via the above flag is to use jmap -histo:live on the JVM.

-- ramki