BigMemory 4.4.0 | Product Documentation | BigMemory Max Administrator Guide | Managing Distributed Garbage Collection | About Distributed Garbage Collection (DGC)
 
About Distributed Garbage Collection (DGC)
There are two types of DGC: periodic and inline. The periodic DGC is configurable and can be run manually (see below). Inline DGC, which is an automatic garbage-collection process intended to maintain the server's memory, runs even if the periodic DGC is disabled.
Note that the inline DGC algorithm operates at intervals optimal to maximizing performance, and so does not necessarily collect distributed garbage immediately.