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Re: QUESTION: is there a command in idl which could clean up memory pieces? [message #62992 is a reply to message #62989]

Tue, 21 October 2008 12:16

pgrigis
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Registered: September 2007

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liton...@gmail.com wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am wondering if there is a command in IDL which could clean up all
> the memory pieces to generate a whole big piece which could be used by
> IDL.
> Because, recently I am running a code to read and deal with cdf files.
> And there are lots of files (more than 1000). The code cannot finish
> them once, because of memory problem.

While it is possible you are having a memory fragmentation issue,
it seems more likely you are just running out of memory. Can you tell
us how much memory you use at the time of the failure?
Use: help,/mem

Cheers,
Paolo

> And I know that in Matlab there is a command called 'pack', which
> could clean up all the memory pieces. So I am wondering if there is a
> similar counterpart in IDL. It took me really a long time to find in
> the manuals. But no luck.
> I appreciate your help and your try.
>
> tongmu

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		Re: QUESTION: is there a command in idl which could clean up memory pieces? By: litongmu on Tue, 21 October 2008 22:58
		Re: QUESTION: is there a command in idl which could clean up memory pieces? By: russell.grew on Tue, 21 October 2008 18:27
		Re: QUESTION: is there a command in idl which could clean up memory pieces? By: litongmu on Tue, 21 October 2008 15:52
		Re: QUESTION: is there a command in idl which could clean up memory pieces? By: pgrigis on Tue, 21 October 2008 12:16
		Re: QUESTION: is there a command in idl which could clean up memory pieces? By: Andrew Cool on Wed, 22 October 2008 20:32

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