From bug-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Mon Mar  5 14:55:56 2001
Subject: Freeing memory
From: Etienne Grossmann <etienne at anonimo dot isr dot ist dot utl dot pt>
To: bug-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
CC: etienne at isr dot ist dot utl dot pt
Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2001 21:01:33 +0000



  Hello,

  I am wondering if octave (2.1.33) is freeing memory as it should : 

  If I do 

  inv (randn (4000));

  memory used by octave grows to 246MB. If I interrupt the inversion
with ^C, the memory consumption remains at 246MB.

  If I do 

  foo = randn (4000);
  clear foo;

  Memory temporarily grows to 124MB, then goes back down to 2.5MB.

  Does something not get done when a ^C occurs?

  Cheers,

  Etienne



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