No. After myfunction() finished and I am at the REPL prompt, top shows Julia taking 49%. And after I did gc(), it shows Julia taking 48%.
On Tuesday, September 20, 2016 at 4:05:56 AM UTC+8, Randy Zwitch wrote: > > Does the problem go away if you run gc()? > > > > On Monday, September 19, 2016 at 3:55:14 PM UTC-4, K leo wrote: >> >> Thanks for the suggestion about valgrind. >> >> Can someone please let me first understand the expected behaviour for >> memory usage. >> >> Let's say when I first starts Julia REPL it takes 5% of RAM (according to >> top). Then I include "myfile.jl" and run myfunction(). During the >> execution of myfunction(), memory allocation of Julia reaches 40% of RAM >> (again according to top). Say running myfunction() involves no allocation >> of global objects - all object used are local. Then when myfunction() >> finished and I am at the REPL prompt, should top show the memory usage of >> Julia drops down to the previous level (5% of RAM)? My current observation >> is that it doesn't. Is this the expected behaviour? >> >>
