Clsing IJulia in a neat way

[Ferran Mazzanti]

Dear all,

I use IJulia from time to time. To do that I open the julia REPL in the terminal, issue

using IJulia
notebook()

..and the web browser opens and I am ready to go. But when I want to finish  the IJulia session,
I dont see a 'close' button in the file manager of Jupyter, so I have to close the tab (or browser) where I'm
working. Then the REPL gets stuck, so I have to do Ctrl+C and quit form julia.
A very unconfortable way of proceeding... and it leaves the memory of my Linux Mint box full of garbage,
to the point that it can swallow 12+Gb of my RAM.

Now I'm sure there are better ways to proceed... but how?

Best regards and thanks,

Ferran.

[Sisyphuss]

I encountered similar problem on my Ubuntu.

[Cedric St-Jean]

Not sure if this will help, but you can launch Jupyter with `ipython notebook` at the command line (then select Julia kernels). If you make sure to `File -> Close and Halt` your notebooks (instead of just closing the tabs), they won't take up memory (it kills the process).

As far as I know, Ctrl-C Ctrl-C is still the official way of closing Jupyter, but I don't think I've ever had an issue where Jupyter itself took up too much memory. But I did have instances (with lots of plots) where Firefox held on to my RAM after closing the notebooks. Which process takes up memory in your case?

[Steven G. Johnson]

Usually I leave Jupyter running 24/7 in the background.   I don't leave all the *notebooks* open (you can either choose "close and halt" from the notebook's file menu, or halt them via the checkbox in the jupyter dashboard window); the Jupyter web server itself takes up very little memory.