Heap space out of memory

Question

My application currently consumes quite a lot of memory because it is running physics simulations. The issue is that consistently, at the 51st simulation, Java will throw an

Answer 1

No. The heap is cleared by the garbage collector whenever it feels like it. You can ask it to run (with System.gc()) but it is not guaranteed to run.

First try increasing the memory by setting -Xmx256m