Hibernate out of memory exception while processing large collection of elements

Question

I am trying to process collection of heavy weight elements (images). Size of collection varies between 8000 - 50000 entries. But for some reason after processing 1800-1900 e

Answer 1

Try using session.clear() which "Completely clear the session. Evict all loaded instances and cancel all pending saves, updates and deletions. Do not close open iterators or instances of ScrollableResults"