java系统回收内存_在对象重新分配和垃圾回收之后，Java仍然使用系统内存

我正在运行JVM 1.5.0(Mac OS X默认)，并且正在活动监视器中监视Java程序。我有以下内容：

import java.io.BufferedReader;

import java.io.IOException;

import java.io.InputStreamReader;

import java.util.ArrayList;

import java.util.Date;

public class MemoryTest {

public static void memoryUsage() {

System.out.println(

Runtime.getRuntime().totalMemory() -

Runtime.getRuntime().freeMemory()

);

}

public static void main( String[] args ) throws IOException {

/* create a list */

ArrayList list = new ArrayList();

/* fill it with lots of data */

for ( int i = 0; i < 5000000; i++ ) {

list.add( new Date() );

} // systems shows ~164 MB of physical being used

/* clear it */

memoryUsage(); // about 154 MB

list.clear();

list = null;

System.gc();

memoryUsage(); // about 151 KB, garbage collector worked

// system still shows 164 MB of physical being used.

System.out.println("Press enter to end...");

BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(

new InputStreamReader( System.in )

);

br.readLine();

}

}

那么，即使垃圾收集器似乎工作正常，为什么还没有释放物理内存呢？