[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #55052] Memory consumption of figure command going up significantly from 4.2 to 4.4

[Philip Nienhuis]

Follow-up Comment #5, bug #55052 (project octave):

With Octave-6.0.0, M usage on Linux for just an empty figure handle  amounts
to ~6 MB. Less than on Windows, but still IMO outrageously much.

(checked using the command in a bash shell:

ps -eo size,pid,user,command --sort -size | awk '{ hr=$1/1024 ; printf("%13.2f
Mb ",hr) } { for ( x=4 ; x<=NF ; x++ ) { printf("%s ",$x) } print "" }' |cut
-d "" -f2 | cut -d "-" -f1 | grep octave

after each "figure" command in Octave, see below)

## Before "figure" command:
address@hidden ~]$ ps -eo size,pid,user,command --sort -size | awk '{
hr=$1/1024 ; printf("%13.2f Mb ",hr) } { for ( x=4 ; x<=NF ; x++ ) {
printf("%s ",$x) } print "" }' |cut -d "" -f2 | cut -d "-" -f1 | grep octave
       161.83 Mb /usr/local/libexec/octave/6.0.0/exec/x86_64
         0.57 Mb octave

## After opening 3 figure handles:

address@hidden ~]$ ps -eo size,pid,user,command --sort -size | awk '{
hr=$1/1024 ; printf("%13.2f Mb ",hr) } { for ( x=4 ; x<=NF ; x++ ) {
printf("%s ",$x) } print "" }' |cut -d "" -f2 | cut -d "-" -f1 | grep octave
       180.06 Mb /usr/local/libexec/octave/6.0.0/exec/x86_64
         0.57 Mb octave 
address@hidden ~]$ 



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