Re: netbeans or java ?

From: Steve Sobol (sjsobol_at_JustThe.net)
Date: 08/30/04 

Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2004 17:51:17 -0700

Hal Rosser wrote:

> oooh! - I was under the impression that netbeans was done in Java and I
> thought Java programs didn't need to worry about memory leaks because of the
> garbage collector. What would cause this in java apps?\
> Is the JVM at fault for the memory leaks ?

Excellent question. I'm not absolutely sure!

I had the Garbage Collection toolbar turned on and I did manual GC's pretty
often, but sometimes I'd exit the IDE and anywhere from 10-20 megs of memory
used by the IDE never got released. I don't think it's the JVM. Not in this case. 

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