Re: Memory leak, once again.
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- Subject: [mg61616] Re: Memory leak, once again.
- From: David Bailey <dave at Remove_Thisdbailey.co.uk>
- Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 01:43:57 -0400 (EDT)
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Sander wrote: > I have been browsing the posts in this group, but was not able to find > anything to solve my problem. > I have a feeling Mathematica still has a memory leak, and a severe one, > but cannot locate it. I wonder if anybody can help me. > ------------------------------------------------ > I have a code for some algebraic computations - no images,no sounds, no > files. > I load the initial data, MemoryInUse shows about 3MB used. > I run the evaluation. Say in the current example in succeeds to > evaluate the needed data at 22MB. > Then I run the > Remove["Global`"] command (the only non-system context I have), > then I also use the CleanSlate utility to clear In and Out things. > I look at the MemoryInUse again and it shows about 19MB used. > ------------------------------------------------ > So it seems I have cleared all my input data, but the memory is still > used. Share[] does nothing as well. So could there probably be some > hidden system variable that stored something weird? > ------------------------------------------------ > I understand that 19MB is nothing, but the problem is that the memory > used keeps going up constantly, and much faster that the growth of the > data set I have. So it makes me incapable of evaluating example I need. > ------------------------------------------------- > If it can help, I am on Mathematica 5.0, Windows XP > ------------------------------------------------- > Thanks to everybody in advance! > Hello, I think it would help to post some code that exhibits this problem - preferably in the form of a loop that clearly goes on consuming memory. David Bailey http://www.dbaileyconsultancy.co.uk