You can manually call `gc()` when you think it is time to do some cleaning.
kl. 20:15:58 UTC+1 mandag 10. mars 2014 skrev Daniel H følgende: > > Hi all, > > I find that Julia's GC doesn't collect garbage regularly, so the computer > might run out of memory and starts swapping. > > Here's what I did > A = <a big matrix. After A is defined, there would be 1.1 GB free memory > left> > > > B = <a random matrix of 500 MB> > > > C = <a random matrix of 500 MB> > # so now there's only 100 MB free on the memory > > > C = 0 > # still 100MB free.... Julia not cleaning up Memory. MATLAB would free > the memory at this point > > > B = <a random matrix of 500 MB> > # run out of RAM, now stuff get written to disk > > I wonder if there's any setting that make Julia do GC whenever possible? > For example, in this case, GC would do something when I set C = 0. > >
