Ok that makes sense. Thank you. -----Original Message----- From: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Sent: 4/3/2015 3:35 AM To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Subject: [julia-users] Re: Garbage collection when calling a function
On Thursday, April 2, 2015 at 10:51:52 PM UTC+11, Ali Rezaee 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? The GC does not run every time a function returns, it runs when the memory usage reaches a specified amount (IIUC) so until your usage reaches the limit GC won't run. Cheers Lex Many thanks
