Re: Huge memory consumption of GIF.exe
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- Subject: [mg97090] Re: Huge memory consumption of GIF.exe
- From: dh <dh at metrohm.com>
- Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2009 04:53:32 -0500 (EST)
- References: <golqv7$qb4$1@smc.vnet.net>
Hi, what is GIF.exe? Anyway, it seems to be an external program that has nothing to do with mathematica. Daniel andreas.kohlmajer at gmx.de wrote: > Hello! > > I have difficulties with high memory consumption of GIF.exe. I need to > statistically evaluate a few million SQL-recordsets (grouped by a few > thousand batches). After calculating the data, I also create some > little GIF-images as a visual aid. So far, I have generated approx. > 2000 images using Export[..., "...GIF"] (average image size approx. > 120 kB) and GIF.exe now consumes approx. 1 GB of RAM. The Mathematica > code is a loop (using some Block constructs); all intermediate > variables are cleared (using Clear[...]) at the end of the loop. > > It seems, that GIF.exe does not deallocate the used memory. Is there > any way to deallocate the memory used by GIF.exe? The Mathematica > front end has crashed after 4 hours and I still need to evaluate a few > hundred batches. > > Thanks for any help! >