thanks! Using --preload-lisp and the code below it works now (with Ecl downloaded from CVS --- with older versions it was hard to leave Maxima).
Oliver On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 10:17:07PM +0100, Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll wrote: > On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 9:33 PM, Raymond Toy <toy.raym...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Since that page says the limits can be set from the command line, you > > can modify the maxima script to add those parameters to the command > > line. Or even give those on the command line to maxima. (I forgot how > > it's done, but maxima has the ability to supply command line arguments > > to be passed to the underlying lisp. > > > > I bet you meant --preload-lisp, for which I show an example below. I > misunderstood Oliver. I though he is a Maxima developer interested in > increasing the memory limits in Maxima, but now it seems it is related to > independent jobs that happen to use Maxima built with ECL. > > In this case I think Oliver does not realize that the executable that they > are using is not ECL but Maxima: a standalone executable which is built by > the Maxima scripts. In other words, Maxima is not run by launching ECL with > a given image. Instead it is an independent program, a binary, built using > ECL's facilities. > > Hardcoding limits in ECL or modifying the sources (options which > incidentally are in src/c/main.d) is not the answer. Will you build a > separate executable for every limits you need? What about a situation in > which those limits prove wrong? It is better to use an option which is > configurable at run-time, as ECL's runtime allows you. > > One option is to execute lisp code before running your Maxima scripts. This > can be done using --preload-lisp, as shown below. > > The other option would be to tweak the maxima build process to allow those > limits to be enlarged in the executable (in the end it would add a couple of > lisp statements to do the changes instead of --preload-lisp). > > A final option would be to teach ECL to use environment variables for > gathering the memory limits from the command line. > > Out of these, I think the first one is the best option. > > Juanjo > > $ cat maxima.lisp > (format t ";;; Frame stack limit ~D" > (ext:set-limit 'ext:frame-stack (expt 2 14))) > (format t "~%;;; Binding stack limit ~D" > (ext:set-limit 'ext:binding-stack (expt 2 17))) > (format t "~%;;; C stack limit ~D" > (ext:set-limit 'ext:c-stack (expt 2 22))) > (format t "~%;;; Heap size limit ~D" > (ext:set-limit 'ext:heap-size (expt 2 30))) > (format t "~%;;; Lisp stack limit ~D~%;;;" > (ext:set-limit 'ext:lisp-stack (expt 2 18))) > $ maxima -p maxima.lisp > ;;; Loading #P"/Users/jjgarcia/lib/ecl-11.1.1/sb-bsd-sockets.fas" > ;;; Loading #P"/Users/jjgarcia/lib/ecl-11.1.1/sockets.fas" > ;;; Loading #P"/Users/jjgarcia/lib/ecl-11.1.1/defsystem.fas" > ;;; Loading #P"/Users/jjgarcia/lib/ecl-11.1.1/cmp.fas" > ;;; Frame stack limit 16640 > ;;; Binding stack limit 131072 > ;;; C stack limit 4227072 > ;;; Heap size limit 1073741824 > ;;; Lisp stack limit 33849600 > ;;; > Maxima 5.23post http://maxima.sourceforge.net > using Lisp ECL 11.1.1 > Distributed under the GNU Public License. See the file COPYING. > Dedicated to the memory of William Schelter. > The function bug_report() provides bug reporting information. > (%i1) > > -- > Instituto de Física Fundamental, CSIC > c/ Serrano, 113b, Madrid 28006 (Spain) > http://juanjose.garciaripoll.googlepages.com -- Dr. Oliver Kullmann Computer Science Department Swansea University Faraday Building, Singleton Park Swansea SA2 8PP, UK http://cs.swan.ac.uk/~csoliver/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Special Offer-- Download ArcSight Logger for FREE (a $49 USD value)! Finally, a world-class log management solution at an even better price-free! Download using promo code Free_Logger_4_Dev2Dev. Offer expires February 28th, so secure your free ArcSight Logger TODAY! http://p.sf.net/sfu/arcsight-sfd2d _______________________________________________ Ecls-list mailing list Ecls-list@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ecls-list
