Re:Three kinds of memory leaks
by ShroudedNight on Monday April 30, 2018 @09:48PM
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>the JVM _NEVER_ returns memory to the os
That may (or may not) be true of the GC heap, but the GC heap is only one consumer of JVM memory allocations. I don't know enough to confirm one way or another.
Speaking from experience, OpenJ9's JIT compiler aggressively returns transient compilation memory back to the operating system.
That may (or may not) be true of the GC heap, but the GC heap is only one consumer of JVM memory allocations. I don't know enough to confirm one way or another.
Speaking from experience, OpenJ9's JIT compiler aggressively returns transient compilation memory back to the operating system.