[Pw_forum] freeing memory after end of pw.x calculation

[Marcos Veríssimo Alves]

Sorry - my mistake. The second column of the line with buffers/cache is
fairly constant, as I see now. Working late... Sorry for taking your time,
and many thanks for the tip.

Marcos

On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 4:02 AM, Marcos Veríssimo Alves <
marcos.verissimo.alves at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Lorenzo.
>
> Doesn't seem to be the case, unfortunately. During one run of pw.x:
>
> mverissi at rocknroll:~/pseudo_ape/Carbono/pbe/brute_force/rcs_1.20_rcp_1.20/bmod$
> free -m
>              total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
> Mem:          7934       2636       5297          0        165       1323
> -/+ buffers/cache:       1147       6786
> Swap:        11444          0      11444
>
> In the one immediately following it:
>
> mverissi at rocknroll:~/pseudo_ape/Carbono/pbe/brute_force/rcs_1.20_rcp_1.20/bmod$
> free -m
>              total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
> Mem:          7934       2705       5228          0        165       1387
> -/+ buffers/cache:       1151       6782
> Swap:        11444          0      11444
>
> Even though the runs eat little RAM at a time, I have a few hundred runs
> to perform - I suppose by the end of the runs I'll have my ram all gobbled
> :(
>
> Marcos
>
> On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 3:48 AM, Lorenzo Paulatto <
> Lorenzo.Paulatto at impmc.upmc.fr> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 16 Apr 2012 08:41:47 +0200, Marcos Veríssimo Alves
>> <marcos.verissimo.alves at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Instead, it goes up steadily at the end of each pw.x run, and I can
>> > only conclude that, for whatever reason, the memory used is not being
>> > freed at the end of the runs.
>>
>> Dear Marco,
>> are you sure you do not fall in this case <http://www.linuxatemyram.com/
>> >?
>>
>> bests
>>
>> --
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