From octave-maintainers-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Mon Dec 13 23:47:54 1999
Subject: Octave-2.1.14 don't reclaim memory from globals variables that are   cleared
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: Joao Cardoso <jcardoso at inescn dot pt>
Cc: octave-maintainers at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Mon, 13 Dec 1999 23:48:31 -0600 (CST)

On 13-Dec-1999, Joao Cardoso <jcardoso at inescn dot pt> wrote:

| It seems that the memory used by globals variables at initialization
| can't be reclaimed when the variables are cleared (even with -x):
| 
| octave:1>        ; used memory: 9492K
| octave:1> a=rand(1000);    17M
| octave:2> clear a; a=rand(1000);    17M
| octave:3> clear a; global b
| octave:4> b=rand(1000); 17M
| octave:5> clear b; b=rand(1000); 25M -- should be 17M
| octave:6> clear b; b=rand(1000); 25M
| 
| repeat: (copy/paste)
| 
| a=rand(1000);
| clear a; a=rand(1000);
| clear a; global b
| b=rand(1000);
| clear b; b=rand(1000);
| clear b; b=rand(1000);
| 
| I'm using octave-2.1.14 on sco-3.2v5.0.4

Hmm.  I can't seem to reproduce this problem with the current sources
on my Linux system.

jwe