Garbage collection

[James Gray]

On Saturday, 27 June 2020 at 12:07:19 UTC, Stanislav Blinov wrote:
> On Saturday, 27 June 2020 at 11:35:12 UTC, Arafel wrote:
>
>> If you are using linux, have in mind that the memory is often 
>> not returned to the OS even after a (libc) free.
>
> That's a good observation. Although a GC implementation is not 
> required to actually use malloc, so depending on that falls 
> into "know what you're doing" territory :)

Thanks for the help, but unfortunately it isn't stopping memory 
usage growing in the original app. I will try and build a minimal 
example. In the meantime perhaps someone can suggest how I might 
figure out what is going on. Repeating the same action is giving 
memory usage growth as follows. 1.7GB first time (which now drops 
to about 1GB), then 2.7GB dropping to about 2GB and so on.