From octave-maintainers-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Mon Dec 13 09:15:17 1999 Subject: Octave-2.1.14 don't reclaim memory from globals variables that are cleared From: Joao Cardoso To: octave-maintainers at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Date: Mon, 13 Dec 1999 15:12:14 +0000 Hi, 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 Joao -- Joao Cardoso | e-mail: jcardoso at inescn dot pt INESC, R. Jose Falcao 110 | tel: + 351 2 2094322 4050 Porto, Portugal | fax: + 351 2 2008487