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"Re: FullGC at start-up even before application deployment?"
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The call to System.gc() is coded into the app server (or into one of the libraries it uses
- I know the the RMI libraries like to make GC calls), I suspect as it transitions from
bootstrap to the app server itself. I think it might also perform another GC or two after
deployment or other major initialization activity. I think the idea behind this was to
have the heap as clean of junk as possible before handling user requests. Of course, that
made sense years ago when when servers didn't have that much memory and heaps were
smaller. I have seen this behavior in JBoss AS release from 4.0.x up through 5.x
(haven't monitored GC behavior on 6). I don't know if AS 7 stil lexhibits this
behavior.
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