Greetings!
Why don't you try repeating with :lisp (setq si::*notify-gbc* t)
before the run, and :lisp (room) before and after. You can run the
gbc by hand with :lisp (gbc t).
If you really want detailed output, :lisp (setq
si::*notify-optimize-maximum-pages* t) before the run.
Take care,
"laurent couraud" writes:
> Hi all,
>
> When I do, for example:
>
> (%i1) for i:1 thru 60000 do (nterms(2*a-5*b*c*d^3+a*c^2-3*c^3*d));
>
> after that the amount of memory used by maxima is more than 33MB.
> I obtain this memory size by running that immediately after started
> Maxima (Maxima take 6MB when it start on my machine)
>
> In fact this is the same for all function that I call in the loop.
>
> I don't know if it is a maxima bug or GCL bug.
>
> Maxima 5.9.1 http://maxima.sourceforge.net
> Using Lisp Kyoto Common Lisp GCL 2.6.5 (aka GCL)
>
> It seems like if the garbage collector does nothing.
>
> And kill(All) doesn't free memory.
>
> Laurent
>
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