CollectGarbage

Syntax

CollectGarbage()

Description

Use the CollectGarbage function to remove any unreachable application objects created by the Application Classes.

Sometimes there may be unrecoverable application objects that are can no longer be referenced from PeopleCode, but which have not been reclaimed and so are still taking up computer memory. Generally this situation arises only if you have application objects that form into loops of references.

This function is automatically invoked by the application server as part of its end-of-service processing, so generally you do not need to call it for online applications. However, in Application Engine (batch), it is possible that a long-running batch job could grow in memory usage over time as these unreferencable Application Objects accumulate. The solution to such a problem is to call CollectGarbage periodically to reclaim these objects.

Parameters

None.

Returns

None.