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Re: Garbage collection and Memory [message #2175 is a reply to message #2173]

Sat, 04 June 1994 08:49

thompson
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Registered: August 1991

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hevans@estwm0.wm.estec.esa.nl (Hugh Evans) writes:

> I have discovered that after using Wave for an extended period that it slowly
> grabs more and more memory, even if new variables are not created, until
> finally it runs out of core memory. Whereas by saving the session and
> restarting it, the previous operation that crashed on a memory allocation
> problem will complete successfully.

> This, by the way, is being done on VAX/VMS.

The problem is that the memory is getting fragmented. It would be nice if IDL
(and apparently PV-Wave) were more sophisticated about handling this--perhaps a
dot command to defragment the memory.

Bill Thompson

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		Garbage collection and Memory By: hevans[2] on Thu, 02 June 1994 08:55
		Re: Garbage collection and Memory By: hevans[2] on Fri, 03 June 1994 06:58
		Re: Garbage collection and Memory By: thompson on Sat, 04 June 1994 08:52
		Re: Garbage collection and Memory By: eharold on Thu, 09 June 1994 15:00
		Re: Garbage collection and Memory By: thompson on Sat, 04 June 1994 08:49
		Re: Garbage collection and Memory By: landers on Fri, 03 June 1994 11:08
		Re: Garbage collection and Memory By: gumley on Thu, 02 June 1994 10:22
		Re: Garbage collection and Memory By: pjclinch on Fri, 03 June 1994 02:59
		Re: Garbage collection and Memory By: pendleton on Sun, 12 June 1994 13:28
		Re: Garbage collection and Memory By: landers on Fri, 10 June 1994 15:34
		Re: Garbage collection and Memory By: geomagic on Fri, 10 June 1994 12:37
		Re: Garbage collection and Memory By: eharold on Fri, 10 June 1994 07:44
		Re: Garbage collection and Memory By: eharold on Fri, 10 June 1994 07:17
		Re: Garbage collection and Memory By: geomagic on Thu, 09 June 1994 17:33

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