Re: Garbage collection not happening?

From: Jeff Zohrab <jeff.zohrab_at_bmo.com>
Date: 6 Sep 2002 09:43:25 -0700
Message-ID: <a6806c4a.0209060843.12e5ac0@posting.google.com>

> > Why are you putting the results in an ArrayList? If you can write each
> > record to the file directly, you might be able to work around the
> > problem.
>
> B/c there's some in memory processing that has to take place on the
> records after they've been read out of the db and before they are
> written out.

(Note I'm new to Java, but I agree with subsequent posts that iPlanet may be caching stuff... don't know anything about iPlanet though, sorry).

Can you give some detail on the in-memory processing that needs to occur? Perhaps you could create a class that does the processing on the fly as the records are output to the file.

An obvious idea, yes, but just looking for options.

jz Received on Fri Sep 06 2002 - 11:43:25 CDT