From bug-request at octave dot org Wed Jan 19 13:02:04 2005
Subject: Re: Serious memory leak in octave (this may be a duplicate bug	report)
From: Per Persson <persquare at mac dot com>
To: Dan Nessett <dnessett at comcast dot net>
Cc: bug at octave dot org
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 20:05:43 +0100


On Jan 19, 2005, at 19:05, Dan Nessett wrote:

> Per,
>
> Moving to octave 2.1.50 doesn't fix the problem. As you can see from 
> the
> following output from top, the number of pageouts greatly exceeds the 
> number
> of pageins, which is another indication of a memory leak.
>
> Is there anyway I can help debug this problem? Is it possible this is 
> a gcc
> 3.3 problem? I did not have the problem before I moved to it.

I haven't seen that particular problem on 10.2, so I don't (yet) think 
the compiler is to blame.

Try building octave 2.1.64 from source. You might find some helpful 
comments on the wiki <http://wiki.octave.org/wiki.pl?OctaveForMac> and 
in the mailing list archives.

/Per



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