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title: "How you can force the garbage collection?"  
description: "How you can force the garbage collection?"  
author: "Anonymous User"  
published: 2010-12-13  
updated: 2020-09-18  
canonical: https://www.mindstick.com/interview/294/how-you-can-force-the-garbage-collection  
category: "java"  
tags: ["java"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# How you can force the garbage collection?

You can't force it but you call System.gc(), which is a "hint" to the runtime engine that now might be a good time to run the GC. But garbage collection using this method is not guaranteed to be done immediately.\

## Answers

### Answer by Anonymous User

You can't force it but you call System.gc(), which is a "hint" to the runtime engine that now might be a good time to run the GC. But garbage collection using this method is not guaranteed to be done immediately.\


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