On Tuesday, June 21, 2005 3:43 PM Vanuxem Grégory wrote: > It seems that there is a memory leak in Axiom; > > Open a shell, type 'top' and observe residual and virtual memory. > > Open AXIOMsys and type > > new(1000,1000,0.0)$Matrix(SF); > > and repeat this action.
I can not reproduce this error using the Windows version of Axiom 0.1.4. This version of Axiom is based GCL 2.6.5. On windows I can monitor memory usage with Task Manager, Performance tab. What version of Axiom and operating system are you using for your test? What version of GCL was used to build Axiom? > A (1000,1000) C double float array takes 7.63 Mb. > > If I alloc a contiguous storage memory array of 1000x1000, > amount of virtual and residual memory augment of 10Mb. It seems > it is never released. > > I haven't found this in gcl. Could you describe the test you use on GCL? What version of gcl are you using? > > Any idea ? If you repeat this process several times: 1) Open Axiom 2) Allocate Matrix 3) Close Axiom 4) display residual and virtural memory For example do this 5 times in a row, do you find that the total available memory is constantly decreasing? If this is not that case, but only occurs on the first iteration, then what you might be seeing is some kind of executable cacheing being done by the operating system. (Does linux do that? Some versions of Windows do. I see such an effect under Windows XP.) Regards, Bill Page. _______________________________________________ Axiom-developer mailing list Axiom-developer@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer
