octave memory

[John W. Eaton]

On 11-Feb-2009, Søren Hauberg wrote:

| ons, 11 02 2009 kl. 17:31 +0100, skrev jean francois sauvage:
| > 2) Actually, the "who" command gives information about the size of
| > variables. This is not exactly what I need. I need to know how much
| > memory has been allocated while the execution of a program.
| > 
| > the function memory() of IDL returns 4 arguments :
| >  - the actual amount of dynamic memory used by IDL
| >  - the number of memory allocation since last call to memory()
| >  - the number of memory unallocation since last call to memory()
| >  - the maximum amount of dynamic memory readched since last call to memory()
| > 
| > I am looking for something similar (particularly for the first and
| > fourth arguments) in octave.

Octave doesn't keep track of these statistics.

Why do you think you need this information?

jwe