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.
>
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