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Re: Memory leak or flawed garbage collector

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• Subject: [mg120585] Re: Memory leak or flawed garbage collector
• From: "Fabrice P. Laussy" <fabrice.laussy at gmail.com>
• Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2011 06:00:03 -0400 (EDT)
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On Friday, July 29, 2011 06:32:52 pm you wrote:
> Essentially impossible to diagnose conclusively without actual code. But 
> from the ?RegMatrix$632 result above, it appears you use some Module 
> local symbols to create DownValues. I believe that creates references so 
> that the ref counting mechanism will not allow freeing them, What I 
> typically do is explicitly Clear such variables before exiting Module.

Dear Daniel,

I thought the description would be enough for a guru to identify if this was a bug or some problem from my side. As I said I couldn't reproduce the problem in simplified versions. If you want an instance of the code I can provide it.
 
> There is an example of this at
> http://forums.wolfram.com/mathgroup/archive/2010/Jan/msg00155.html

however I think for a while you provided enough information hinting that the 
problem lies on my side. I am calling external modules and this might result 
in locking variables. I'll study your link & come back here if I can't make 
sense of it.

Thanks for your tips.

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    • From: "Fabrice P. Laussy" <fabrice.laussy@gmail.com>