Inkscape may not release RAM for any shell mode command. I'm using it for SVG-to-PNG conversion (command passed to shell mode is roughly `source.svg --export-height=20 --export-png=dest.png`). I'm doing this for potentially tens of thousands of not-very-complicated files and Inkscape's memory usage can get into multiple gigabytes.
Inkscape may not release RAM for any shell mode command. I'm using it for SVG-to-PNG conversion (command passed to shell mode is roughly `source.svg --export-height=20 --export- png=dest. png`). I'm doing this for potentially tens of thousands of not-very- complicated files and Inkscape's memory usage can get into multiple gigabytes.