The garbage collection that takes place is inside the VM, not in the collection of unused VM's. There's a slight difference. If you have hundreds of VM's, there's a programmatic error somewhere. George Carl Parrish wrote: > > Okay is there any way to kill a process by name? Since I've update to RH > 7.2 I been noticing that I had problems with mozilla or other apps. > Today I finally thought to check for java_vm processes. there are > *hundres* of them they aren't dying I don't know if that's just because > I have so much memory the garbage collector simply isn't clearing them > or what but I want them dead and I don't wont to have to type in ever > process number. is there a way I can just say kill all java_vm processes? > > Carl P. > > ________________________________________________ > See http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/navigator-mail.shtml if your mail doesn't post to the list quickly and you use Netscape to write mail. > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss