What OS are you on? GC should get triggered before you run out but some OSes have really poor behavior in this regard.
> On Mar 10, 2014, at 3:15 PM, Daniel H <danielc...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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. >
