I'm afraid this is a little too vague to help debugging. If you are calling C code that allocates memory and doesn't free it, then there's nothing that Julia's GC can do about it. If normal Julia code allocates memory, it will get freed once there's no way to reach it anymore.
On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 7:51 AM, Ali Rezaee <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear all, > > I have faced a situation that was unexpected to me. Would you let me know > if this was expected or this is a bug? > > I have a very long code, so I could not put an example here. But the > situation is that I have a function in a separate file that I have included > in my code. > Some where in my code, I call the function for thousands of times, and > each time it returns an integer, 0 or 1. The problem is that with each call > of the function, memory usage of my pc increases by one percent and is not > deallocated after the function is finished. > I could circumvent the problem by explicitly using the garbage collector > gc(). > Should Julia not have collected garbage automatically after a function > from an external library has finished running? > > Many thanks >
