[ILUG] Ports on Java / Linux (Slightly OT)

[Mark Fallon]

Lorcan Hamill wrote:
> 
> My guess is that you're not calling Socket.close(), but just letting
> your socket objects go out of scope.  That's fine if the garbage collector
> kicks in, because the Socket's finalize() probably calls close(), but
> the gc just ain't happening.  This is quite common - the gc only kicks
> in if you're running low on memory - so it's easy to run out of
> non-memory resources if you're not careful to call "cleanup" methods
> like Socket.close() before letting your objects go out of scope.
> The GC on Windoze is probably more aggressive than the one you're now
> dealing with.
> 
> I could be wrong about all this - I've never seen this happen with
> sockets, but I *have* seen exactly the same problem with an app
> that processes ordinary files.
> 
> Good luck.
> 
> Lorcan
> 

You can force garbage collection with:

	System.gc();

You can also force finalize to be called on all objects
waiting for garbage collection with:

	System.runFinalization();	

Regards,

Mark
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