"François " <francois.bailly@ens-cachan.fr> wrote in message <loe6l4$pg7$1@newscl01ah.mathworks.com>...
> I'm running a function with big datas (my RAM reaches 4go/8go during the process). Thanks to the tic/toc function, I know that matlab reaches the end of my function, as the elapsed time (about 30 sec) is displayed in my command window.
> After that, I have to wait for a few minutes, until Matlab is ready again (busy during all this time). Does someone know where this issue comes from? A clue : during this 'busy time' my RAM is still used up to 3go, it's like Matlab cannot clear the local variables...
Well, that could be the case. Alternatively ar you flushing some kind of state/data back to disk? Oh, and from a personal view: big data is not governed by the amount of memory used - that could just be bad code or small data amounts requiring GB of RAM such as NLP.
> I'm running a function with big datas (my RAM reaches 4go/8go during the process). Thanks to the tic/toc function, I know that matlab reaches the end of my function, as the elapsed time (about 30 sec) is displayed in my command window.
> After that, I have to wait for a few minutes, until Matlab is ready again (busy during all this time). Does someone know where this issue comes from? A clue : during this 'busy time' my RAM is still used up to 3go, it's like Matlab cannot clear the local variables...
Well, that could be the case. Alternatively ar you flushing some kind of state/data back to disk? Oh, and from a personal view: big data is not governed by the amount of memory used - that could just be bad code or small data amounts requiring GB of RAM such as NLP.