problem of memory

I'm running a script to generate maps. At the end of processing, the memory that was allocated is not released and the process is completely blocked so I can not even save my outputs and i'm forced to exit Matlab. Do you have any solution for this?
Thanks in advance

Answers (2)

Jonathan Sullivan
Jonathan Sullivan on 11 Jan 2012

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You are using your paging files. You have a few options:
  1. Buy more RAM
  2. Break up your operation into many steps
  3. Try to rewrite your code to clear variables after use, so as to decrease the memory requirements
C.J. Harris
C.J. Harris on 11 Jan 2012

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Also ensure that if you are generating Matlab Figures (as an intermediate step) with the 'Visible' property set to false that you close them after use. I know this has caught me out in the past.

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Zied
Zied on 11 Jan 2012
Thank you, do you know the command to set the Visible property to false?
C.J. Harris
C.J. Harris on 11 Jan 2012
Example:
h = figure;
set(h, 'Visible','off');
C.J. Harris
C.J. Harris on 11 Jan 2012
Therefore ensure that if you set your figure to invisible you still close it. Following on from the example above:
close(h)
Zied
Zied on 11 Jan 2012
okay but i'm wondering how to open it in the end of the script??
C.J. Harris
C.J. Harris on 11 Jan 2012
To show the figure again set its visiblity to true:
set(h, 'Visible','on');
Zied
Zied on 11 Jan 2012
i will test this. Thanks a lot Chris

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