Octave Memory Issue

[John W. Eaton]

On 10-Mar-2008, Obsessive MathsFreak wrote:

| Octave gobbles up and will not release memory allocated in functions
| after access in a for loop
| 
| Kernel:
| Ubuntu 7.10 2.6.22-14-generic #1 SMP Sun Oct 14 21:45:15 GMT 2007
| x86_64 GNU/Linux
| 
| Octave(From Ubuntu Repositories):
| GNU Octave, version 2.1.73 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu).
| 
| Steps to reproduce(CAUTION may hang due to swappiness):
| 
| $ octave < dud.m
| 
| And watch the memory burn away.
| 
| "clear" helps, but not completely. And no, doing away with the for
| loops is not possible. This is a simplified example of a much more
| complex function.
| 
| Remove the line inside the nested for loops to see the memory usages 
difference.
| 
| I'd like to know of any octave command or setting that forces garbage
| collection on the system to prevent this.

Although I can reproduce this problem with Octave 2.1.73, I have no
plans to investigate or fix it since 2.1.73 is obsolete.

  The current
stable version is 3.0.0, and I can't re

I can't