The only package used (at the global level) is DataFrames. Does that not release memory?
On Tuesday, September 20, 2016 at 6:05:58 AM UTC+8, K leo wrote: > > 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? >>> >>>
