Re: destroy a variable

["Zachary P. Landau" <kapheine@...>]

On 4/29/07, Roger D Vargas <luo_hei@yahoo.es> wrote:
> I have found a weird problem while writing my server.
> If I repeatedly execute the string "a=math.random(1,20)" in my embedded
> interpreter, when I stop the host I got a crash with a lot of glibc
> errors. If I replace the code by "math.random(1,20)" no problems occurs.
> Is there any way to destroy variables used in an script when I dont need
> them anymore?

Is this on some low-memory device?  I wonder if it is possible that
you are allocating memory faster than the garbage collector can
reclaim it.  Although I wouldn't expect  "a=math.random(1,20)" and
"math.random(1,20)" to be significantly different as far as memory
allocation is concerned.

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Zachary P. Landau <kapheine@gmail.com>