Tag Archives: Gc

Do we need to call the Garbage Collector manually ( System.gc() ) in Android?

By | September 5, 2017

This is a common question. Eventhough the Android System calls garabage collector at appropriate times, this usually will not be adequate. Because the system calls GC at intervals, most of the time it wont work perfect and causing unnecessary pauses in the application. If these pauses are more than 16ms, then the user will noticeā€¦ Read More »

Java check memory Allocation

By | April 7, 2012

When run the code the output will be similar to this Total memory is: 5177344 Initial free memory: 4986744 Free memory after garbage collection: 5063784 Free memory after allocation: 5045296 Memory used by allocation: 18488 Free memory after collecting discarded Integers: 5063784