beginnerJVM Internals & Memory
Why should you never call System.gc() in production code?
It's only a suggestion the JVM is free to ignore — there's no guarantee it actually runs a collection. Meanwhile, if it does run, it pauses the application at a time you don't control, which can hurt response time unpredictably.
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