Re: freeing memory used by Import[]
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- Subject: [mg102258] Re: freeing memory used by Import[]
- From: divisor <congruentialuminaire at yahoo.com>
- Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2009 05:45:50 -0400 (EDT)
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Hello MathGroup: As a result of some help from WRI support, the behavior is much more clear to me now. I actually am not sure if it is a bug and I don't know if it can be fixed in a subsequent release. Basically what is happening is that the result of the earlier invocations are always in Out[n]. This is designed this way (from the first Mathematica version, I guess) in order to support the "%-m" construct. This is (of course) controlled by the $HistoryLength system variable. Since this application does not need to use "%-100" or "%-1000" (which are fully supported by Mathematica) it can run with a much smaller $HistoryLength setting. In fact, I will probably use 1 or 2 since I just need to Export[] the graphic once it is rendered. I cannot imagine I could get this to work without help from the vendor. Regards.. Roger Williams Franklin Laboratory On Jul 26, 12:53 am, divisor <congruentialumina... at yahoo.com> wrote: > Hello MathGroup: > > Somehow running the following command a few times depletes all of the > free <snipped/>