java内存 map,用HashMap进行Java内存管理

I am working on an application which reads in a huge amount of data from a database into a Map>>, processes it, and writes the processed reports to a spreadsheet using an in-house xml writer. The whole run can take about 12 hours.

I'm finding I'm getting

Exception in thread "CursorController-Thread-0" java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space

at java.lang.AbstractStringBuilder.(AbstractStringBuilder.java:45)

at java.lang.StringBuilder.(StringBuilder.java:68)

When I attempt to write this jumbo file. For this reason I think it would be best to write each Map> (notice that's a layer deeper)as it's finished processing.

My question is, how can I make sure that the Map> is not retained in memory after I write it, since the Map>> will still contain it?

解决方案

Once you're done with the Map> mapped to by the key "key" you simply do

hugeMap.remove("key");

This will "null" out the entry in the hugeMap and make the Map> eligible for garbage collection (i.e., never be part of causing a heap space out of memory).