Thread: Memory usage increasing in while loop - is it a memory leak

Hi

I have the following bit of code, basically keeps getting a list of available Drives on a windows computer (every 2 seconds at the moment but it will be every 30secs).

Trouble is that when running this when watching the memory usage in Task Manager the memory keeps increasing, I have left this running for around 10 minutes and it still increasing.

Is there any reason why this is happening as it SHOULD be just replacing the contents of 'currentDrives' variable.

Thanks

import java.io.File;
 
public class Main {
 
 
    public static void main(String[] args)
    {
        File[] currentDrives = File.listRoots();
 
        while(true)
        {
            currentDrives = File.listRoots();
 
            try
            {
                Thread.sleep(2000);
            }
            catch(Exception ex)
            {
                System.out.println("Error: " + ex.getMessage());
            }
        }
 
    }
 
}

Thanks very much, it has been running around 30 minutes now and it seems to have stopped increasing the memory usage, it starts off at around 7mb and has stopped increasing around 12.6mb and has been solid there for around 5 minutes now.

Thanks again