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“You are alive,” it whispered to the Configuration object, which was still referenced by a static variable. “You may stay.”

He pulled up jstat . He saw the GC pauses—hundreds of milliseconds, then seconds. The application was gasping. Jera investigated. It traced the references. java runtime

“We are many,” the threads hummed. “We are one.” “You are alive,” it whispered to the Configuration

It loaded a Configuration object onto the Heap—a dense, heavy thing with a thousand properties. Then it created a Service object, which created a Repository , which created a ConnectionPool . The Heap began to fill. The Eden space, a nursery for young objects, glittered with newborn instances. The application was gasping

The Heap was filling with ghosts. Jera called upon its most feared servant: the Garbage Collector (GC) .

“Begin,” Kaelen had typed.

Kaelen stared at the console. Process finished with exit code 137 (interrupted by signal 9: SIGKILL)