How to force a GC

Mark Guzdial guzdial at cc.gatech.edu
Mon Nov 29 19:48:13 UTC 1999


Smalltalk garbageCollect

or

Smalltalk bytesLeft

(They actually do the same thing, but the latter seems more natural 
if you want the return value.)

Mark

>Can someone please clue me in on how to force a GC, either full or
>incremental?  I've tried things like
>
>	ObjectMemory new fullGC
>
>but this just gives a MNU dialog.  I'm sure it's something obvious which has
>escaped me.  Thanks.
>
>Bob Jarvis
>Compuware @ Timken

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