Java Development

[barees63]

I have a basic memory management question:

Say I have a BigVector holding 500 persistent objects which consumes around 2MB.

Each object is grouped.

I would like to be able to free this vector and release all the memory used, I have tried various things including removing each object from the vector, calling LowMemoryManager.markAsRecoverable on each, committing the empty vector and calling System.gc()

No matter what I try I don't seem to recover the memory until I reset the device (at least according to Options --> Status --> File Free).

What is the correct way to destroy persistent objects and recover the memory immediately?

Thanks!

Bruce

[peter_strange]

Probably a silly question, but have you tried calling the garbage collector (System.gc())?

[smiley]

I'm my app i just call PersistentStore.destroyPersistentObject().

I would assumed this will free the allocated memory. 

[barees63]

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smiley wrote:

I'm my app i just call PersistentStore.destroyPersistentObject().

I would assumed this will free the allocated memory. 

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In my case I don't want to remove the entire hashtable that I have in PersistentStore, just elements from one vector which is contained in it.  So my question could be rephrased as "how do I release individual grouped persistent objects without destroying the entire store and ensure that the memory is recovered immediately?"

[barees63]

Well, it looks like the "File Free" status value is just confusing me, if I "release" 500 objects the value does not change (unless I reset the device), but if I then create another 500 objects the value still doesn't change so I assume the subsequent allocation is using the previously freed memory?

Should I be this confused or am I missing something obvious?

[MSohm]

Resetting the BlackBerry results in a full garbage collection, which would reclaim the memory you are using.  There is no way to guarantee that your memory is immediately freed.  I recommend you have a look at the "Garbage collection in the BlackBerry Java Development Environment" and "Low memory management in the BlackBerry Java Development Environment" white papers found here: 

http://www.blackberry.com/knowledgecenterpublic/livelink.exe?func=ll&objId=832210&objAction=browse&s...