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title: "How can you force garbage collection?"  
description: "How can you force garbage collection?"  
author: "Anurag Sharma"  
published: 2010-11-10  
updated: 2020-09-17  
canonical: https://www.mindstick.com/interview/225/how-can-you-force-garbage-collection  
category: "java"  
tags: ["java"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# How can you force garbage collection?

we can't force GC, but could request it by calling System.gc(). JVM does not guarantee that GC will be started immediately

## Answers

### Answer by Anurag Sharma

we can't force GC, but could request it by calling System.gc(). JVM does not guarantee that GC will be started immediately


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