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About Rmi/Servlet

Posted by Abhriup kumar Prasad` on February 08, 2001 at 10:56 AM

> > My application creates numerous threds, after their usage I just
> > call stop() on them, but they don't seem to be getting garbage
> > collected, i.e. resulting in memory leaks. Any ideas to avoid
> > these memory leaks on these Zombie threads.

>
> Hi
> calling stop() method on a thread will simply stops its execution.in java u can not force garbage collector to free the memory u assigned to diiferent objects.Garbagecollectior is a low priority thread which will run when no other higher priory threads are running ant will free the memory.
> so we can not be sure of freeing of memory.just assign null after usning to the object u created so that when GC runs it cleans this object

> Regards
> Ramehs R G V S