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Calling <code>System.gc()</code> or <code>Runtime.getRuntime().gc()</code> is a bad idea for a simple reason: there is no way to know exactly what will be done under the hood by the JVM because the behavior will depend on its vendor, version and options:
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* Will the whole application be frozen during the call?
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* Is the <code>-XX:DisableExplicitGC</code> option activated?
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* Will the JVM simply ignore the call?
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* ...
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An application relying on these unpredictable methods is also unpredictable and therefore broken. The task of running the garbage collector should be left exclusively to the JVM.
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