# Garbage collection, Memory usage issue

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/garbage-collection-memory-usage-issue/326500>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [December 19, 2011, 12:50pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/garbage-collection-memory-usage-issue/326500 "2011-12-19T12:50:10Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 19, 2011, 12:50pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/garbage-collection-memory-usage-issue/326500/1 "2011-12-19T12:50:10Z")

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Ello ello…after hours of confusion I am having trouble with garbage collecton, I hit 1gig easy. I don’t have the code on this machine so basically its a gallery database that the user changes and views images enters details for each item etc etc (100’s of images and mc’s withing mc’s within mc’s)

Even unloading/removing all events/listeners the memory still creeps high although I have found when I load a single image (jpeg) then unload it the memory drops from 1 gig to 100mb again. So Is this unloading of an image triggering garbage collection to run? It seems so but not 100% sure.

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Is it possible to kick start GC or am I already doing that via unloading one image to trigger it. Or can anyone try kickstarting GC by doing as I have to confirm.  
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Thanks for reading  
Mojo