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Octave-2.1.14 don't reclaim memory from globals variables that are clea
From: |
John W. Eaton |
Subject: |
Octave-2.1.14 don't reclaim memory from globals variables that are cleared |
Date: |
Mon, 13 Dec 1999 23:48:31 -0600 (CST) |
On 13-Dec-1999, Joao Cardoso <address@hidden> wrote:
| It seems that the memory used by globals variables at initialization
| can't be reclaimed when the variables are cleared (even with -x):
|
| octave:1> ; used memory: 9492K
| octave:1> a=rand(1000); 17M
| octave:2> clear a; a=rand(1000); 17M
| octave:3> clear a; global b
| octave:4> b=rand(1000); 17M
| octave:5> clear b; b=rand(1000); 25M -- should be 17M
| octave:6> clear b; b=rand(1000); 25M
|
| repeat: (copy/paste)
|
| a=rand(1000);
| clear a; a=rand(1000);
| clear a; global b
| b=rand(1000);
| clear b; b=rand(1000);
| clear b; b=rand(1000);
|
| I'm using octave-2.1.14 on sco-3.2v5.0.4
Hmm. I can't seem to reproduce this problem with the current sources
on my Linux system.
jwe