How do I clear up some memory?

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Chad Greene
Chad Greene on 15 Jan 2014
Commented: Matthew Creek on 24 Aug 2023
When I run computationally-intensive scripts, memory usage goes up and my computer slows down a little bit. This is to be expected. But sometimes after running one of these scripts I close all and clear all, yet when I check my system Activity Monitor Matlab is still using 3.5 GB and my computer runs slow until I restart Matlab. Any tricks for clearing up memory without restarting Matlab? I'm running Matlab R2012b on OSX 10.8.5.

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José-Luis
José-Luis on 15 Jan 2014
Edited: José-Luis on 15 Jan 2014
UNIX systems do not return memory allocated to an application until the application exits. So it's not really a Matlab problem.

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