From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Thu Oct 12 18:08:24 1995
Subject: Re: Memory usage?
From: Tony Roberts <aroberts at zeus dot usq dot edu dot au>
To: help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 95 09:06:23 EST

> From: Eyal Doron <doron%goofy dot mpi-hd dot mpg dot de at helios dot usq dot edu dot au>
> Subject: Memory usage?
> 
> I seem to have a memory leak problem of some kind. Can anybody explain?
> I'm running the following script in the background:
> 
> 
> Never mind what "splitstat" does, the main thing is that the main
> variables "Split" and "TunAmp" are pre-allocated, before the loop is
> invoked. Nevertheless, the "SIZE" reported by the "top" command 
> increases as the loop progresses, until the program crashes. Currently
> it is reporting:
> 

I ran into exactly the same problem last year---it was a right pain in
the neck.  I attributed it to the SVD routine, something would not
release a chunk of memory which, I recall, is about the size of the
matrix supplied to svd; does  splitstat  use svd?  I did not report it
at the time because I could not get it to occur out of the context of
my program!  I would certainly like the problem fixed though.

					Tony
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