Or you could do it this way... https://play.golang.org/p/rU2ONi51ec
On Mon, Oct 2, 2017 at 7:26 PM, Unni Krishnan <u...@nilenso.com> wrote: > I tried FreeOSMemory, didn't make any difference. > > On Mon, 2 Oct 2017, 5:26 a.m. Ian Lance Taylor, <i...@golang.org> wrote: > >> On Sat, Sep 30, 2017 at 9:29 AM, <u...@nilenso.com> wrote: >> > >> > From what I understand reading and a few comments from the gopher slack, >> > this is because go is not releasing memory back to OS but holds it for >> a >> > longer in case it needs this, if that makes sense? It would be really >> > helpful, if someone could help me understand this. >> >> Yes, that is what the Go runtime does. It requests the memory it >> needs from the operating system. Every five minutes or so it returns >> unused memory back to the operating system. You can make this happen >> sooner by calling https://golang.org/pkg/runtime/debug/#FreeOSMemory . >> >> Note that on modern operating systems unused memory is quite cheap. >> >> Ian >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "golang-nuts" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Michael T. Jones michael.jo...@gmail.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
