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How do I free memory? [message #2475]

Tue, 12 July 1994 08:24

eharold
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Registered: July 1993

Junior Member

Here's the problem in brief.

1. Start IDl
2. a=intarr(320,256,200)
3. In another window the Solaris program topx tells me that IDL
is using about 39 megabytes, approximately correct for the array.
4. a=0
5. topx still says IDL is using 39 megabytes.

When I free an array how do I get IDL to give up the memory it
grabbed to get the array in the first place? I think IDL can reuse
the 39 megabytes if it needs it but I'd like to make that memory available
to any other process running on my machine, not just IDL.

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Elliotte Rusty Harold National Solar Observatory
eharold@sunspot.noao.edu Sunspot NM 88349

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