During normal operation, Rhino periodically cleans up removed application state by running GC (garbage collection) algorithms over state that has been updated.
Application state GC is, however, triggered after a certain amount of churn has occurred within a given in-memory database. Sometimes, for example when looking at Rhino heap dumps, it’s useful to disregard state that’s eligible for GC and not have it pollute the heap dump unnecessarily. However, in a cluster that has returned to an idle state, GC won’t normally run to perform these cleanups as the trigger conditions only occur with load.
To help with these situations, Rhino offers two housekeeping functions that force GC to occur. These operations can be used to remove unnecessary state from the heap before taking a heap dump, etc. These procedures are:
