How to convince Java Garbage Collector to run when working set is small?

Question

This is yet another \"please tell me how to force the Java garbage collector to run\" question. In our application, I believe we have good reasons for doing this.

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Answer 1

Your problem is that you're running two applications with entirely different requirements and memory profiles in the same JVM.

Run the data analysis separately, in a non-user-facing process, so that the user-facing server remains constantly responsive. I assume the periodic analysis generates a summary or result data of some kind; make that available to end users by shipping it across to the user-facing server so it can be served from there, or else let your front end fetch it separately from the analysis server.