[Swarm-Support] Garbage Collection issues

[Williamson, Robert J]

hi there,

I am modeling a dynamic population in which individuals are constantly being 
born and dying, using the Java Swarm package. When they die i want the agent 
objects garbage collected, however this is not occurring. After some reading it 
seems that because i am using the GlobalZone for the main SwarmImpl (that then 
creates all the agents) the agents are being put into the is zone, which is 
protected from GC. I was wondering how i can get around thi. I tried just 
making a new ZoneImpl and passing it to my Swarm instead of the Global, but 
that simply crashed my program. Do i need to make modifications to the Zone 
before i pass it along? Ideally i think the main SwarmImpl should reside in the 
GlobalZone, however. Should i give each of my agents their own zone and drop 
that zone when they die? Would that work if they were created by the SwarmImpl 
in the GlobalZone? Is there some simpler solution?

Thanks for your time,
Robert Williamson
Applied Biology/Software Engineering
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
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432-294-0088