Comment 12 for bug 2020119

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Tomas Hlavaty (tomas-hlavaty) wrote : Re: [Bug 2020119] Re: memory leak loading file multiple times

On Sat 20 May 2023 at 13:02, Mahmood <email address hidden> wrote:
> i could use 10GB memory and it would still crash after an arbitrary number of iterations
> the gc isnt properly working here, im not sure why
> even if i drop the assignment to a variable and just load the file on each iteration into nothing (without assigning to anything) memory keeps going up until sbcl crashes

iirc we've had problems with strings too
the conservative gc does not guarantee to reclaim everything