Re: Huge memory consumption of GIF.exe
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- Subject: [mg97125] Re: Huge memory consumption of GIF.exe
- From: andreas.kohlmajer at gmx.de
- Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2009 04:22:43 -0500 (EST)
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Hi, e.g., please see http://groups.google.de/group/comp.soft-sys.math.mathematica/browse_thread/thread/43081cda374c5075/a4cff025b44a7beb?lnk=gst&q=gif.exe#a4cff025b44a7beb GIF.exe is the compiled mathlink exe Mathematica uses to export an image as GIF; it is one of the Mathematica system binaries folder. Best regards, Andreas On 5 Mrz., 10:53, dh <d... at metrohm.com> wrote: > Hi, > > what isGIF.exe? > > Anyway, it seems to be an external program that has nothing to do with > > mathematica. > > Daniel > > andreas.kohlma... at gmx.de wrote: > > Hello! > > > I have difficulties with high memory consumption ofGIF.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) andGIF.exenow 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, thatGIF.exedoes not deallocate the used memory. Is there > > any way to deallocate the memory used byGIF.exe? The Mathematica > > front end has crashed after 4 hours and I still need to evaluate a few > > hundred batches. > > > Thanks for any help!