Possibly Low-Storage BFGS or the Shifted limited-memory variable metric. I am 
unfamiliar with the latter.

-Grey


On Sep 5, 2014, at 10:07 AM, Miguel Angel Salazar de Troya 
<[email protected]> wrote:

> I'm using the MMA method, I believe it requires a hessian approximation? What 
> are the alternatives? I thought this method was popular for topology 
> optimization, where usually many variables are employed.
> 
> Take care
> Miguel
> 
> 
> On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 8:21 AM, Grey Gordon <[email protected]> wrote:
> Sounds like you may just be running out of memory causing a segfault. If you 
> are using some derivative method that requires a hessian approximation, 1000 
> x 1000 matrix is quite large.
> 
> Best,
> Grey Gordon
> 
> 
> On Sep 4, 2014, at 11:51 PM, Miguel Angel Salazar de Troya 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> Hi all
>> 
>> I'm trying to run nlopt inside of a loop. For each iteration, I increase the 
>> number of variables to optimize, using the last result as initial estimation 
>> (it's a field in a mesh that has been refined, hence the increase in the 
>> number of variables) and inialize again nlopt, but I'm running into some 
>> segfault problems that are hard to track (it only happens with a large 
>> number of variables, +1000 thousand, and valgrind runs really slow for those 
>> cases). 
>> 
>> I would just like to know if this is possible (running nlopt inside a for 
>> loop) and what is the best way to do it.
>> 
>> Thanks
>> Miguel
>> -- 
>> Miguel Angel Salazar de Troya
>> Graduate Research Assistant
>> Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering
>> University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
>> (217) 550-2360
>> [email protected]
>> 
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> 
> 
> -- 
> Miguel Angel Salazar de Troya
> Graduate Research Assistant
> Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering
> University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
> (217) 550-2360
> [email protected]
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