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
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