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Slow performance or high overhead from System.gc() calls

Troubleshooting


Problem

Garbage collection overhead may be quite high or the performance may be impacted by frequent garbage collections due to user requests from calls to System.gc()

Symptom

High Overhead for Garbage Collection in cases where the heap is not suffering allocation failures.

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Document Information

Modified date:
03 March 2025

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