On Thu, Aug 18, 2022 at 5:00 PM American Citizen <website.read...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi: > > I have been running a mathematical programming language on my openSuse > Linux system, but have noticed that running programs in this language > seem to be chewing up physical memory, but not releasing it back when > the program is terminated, or killed. Once I had all 32 gigs of memory > allocated and about 12 gigs of swap, leading to a severely swamped > system, which I barely recovered from. > > Is there any command that can be run, to recover good physical memory? I > know rebooting the system will recover the physical memory, but this is > the last step. > > I suspect a memory leak in the programming language as the cause of all > this. > > Thanks for your input. > > Randall >
If memory is not freed when the program terminates, that seems to me to be an operating system bug, not a programming language bug. How do you know the program actually terminated and how do you know the memory is not being freed? Bill BIll
