Does GCL or Maxima have a memory leak?



Richard Hennessy wrote:
> It does not give memory back to Windows for sure.  I tried at the end of my process kill(allbut(List7,List8)) and then 
> tried to plot with draw(points(List7),points(List8)) and got out of storage error for stream.  So the 340 Megabytes was 
> not even available to GCL and Maxima.
>
> The lists were just 200 elements.
>
>   
This won't solve your problem, but you can try ":lisp (room)" or maybe
(room t) to see what is allocated in memory.  But be careful because
(room) probably also conses stuff so if you're almost out of room,
running room might cause you to run out.

Ray