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It depends on how long the object lives. If it’s still being used after a certain number of garbage collection cycles, it gets moved to tenured space, and will never be garbage collected until the tenured space is full, i.e. you’ve used everything you gave
Java with -Xmx. OK, it’s not a real memory leak, but it causes the java application to use more memory than it needs to.
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remember the details though, and never understood it when I did remember them.</div>
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<span class="">Memory is allocated for as long as the object is being called or do you mean the memory is always allocated regardless of the object being in scope and that part of the programme being used or not?<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div>
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<b class="">Subject:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Re: [Beowulf] [External] Re: Clustering vs Hadoop/spark [EXT]<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div>
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Except of course, you do really. Java applications can end up with huge memory leaks because the programmers really need to understand the mechanism when objects get moved from Eden and Survivor space into Tenured space.<o:p class=""></o:p></div>
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Tenured space never decreases, so every object which ends up there is allocated memory for the life of the process. If that was actually an ephemeral object, tough, you’ve lost the memory.<o:p class=""></o:p></div>
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So ideally, the programmer needs to understand the size of their pile of ephemeral objects and make sure the Eden/Survivor spaces are large enough, otherwise they will have a memory leak. If they make the ephemeral spaces too large, though, garbage collection
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<span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">Also, with Java, you don't have to worry about low-level issues like freeing and allocating memory and doing pointer arithmetic. Not having to worry about those low-level issues allows
a student to focus more on the programming concepts. I knew I screw up dereferencing pointers A LOT when learning C and C++</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div>
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