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Posted by alok on February 14, 2001 at 5:53 PM

Correct me if I am wrong, but won't the WeakReferenced objects be reclaimed by GC only if it is running low on memory and do not have any other strong references?. You might want to start your command line program with

java -Xmx1M <- restrict your VM to 1 MB memory.

• wrefs infotone April 04, 2001 at 12:56 PM (1)
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