I have a program thats real simple and will read through my xml file and print out some stuff. THe problem is the xml file is 2gb long and I cant run the program. Any options?

With the advent of JDK8, we no longer have the PermGen. No, the metadata information is not gone, just that the space where it was held is no longer contiguous to the Java heap.

While a developer can't specifically force Java garbage collection, they can ask the JVM to prioritize the process. If developers need the JVM to free up some heap space, here are five ways to ...