Does GCL or Maxima have a memory leak?

• Subject: Does GCL or Maxima have a memory leak?
• From: Richard Hennessy
• Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 23:16:32 -0500

Hi,

I have just finished running a process that consumed 340 megabytes while running in Windows XP.  When it finished I 
tried kill(all) and checked Windows XP task manager and it changed from 340 megabytes to 339 megabytes.  Why am I not 
getting all my memory back?  I have to restart Maxima and then I get it back.

Rich


(%i1) build_info()$
Maxima version: 5.16.3
Maxima build date: 22:48 8/24/2008
host type: i686-pc-mingw32
lisp-implementation-type: GNU Common Lisp (GCL)
lisp-implementation-version: GCL 2.6.8

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