Re: high memory usage by spdet / memory leak?

[Dmitri A. Sergatskov]

David Bateman wrote:
> Try the following patch
>
> 2005-04-29  David Bateman  <address@hidden>
>
>    * dSparse.cc (determinant): Free numeric factorization after
>    sucessful calculation.
>    * CSparse.cc (determinant): ditto.
>
> D.

Thanks.

I tried today's octave cvs snapshot and it does not have memory leak
in spdet. The memory usage during spdet() calculation still high --
something about 300MB. This is for array produced by
octave:1> n=6000; a=speye(n,n)+0.01*sprandn(n,n,0.001);
octave:2> whos a

*** local user variables:

  Prot Name        Size                     Bytes  Class
  ==== ====        ====                     =====  =====
   rwd a        6000x6000                  527572  sparse matrix

Total is 41964 elements using 527572 bytes

Sincerely,

Dmitri.
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