On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 2:56 AM, Dr. David Kirkby<[email protected]> wrote: > > William Stein wrote: >> On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 2:26 AM, Juan Jose >> Garcia-Ripoll<[email protected]> wrote: >>> On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 10:57 AM, William Stein<[email protected]> wrote: >>>> Note that Sage's Maxima uses ECL. So the basic question is, how can >>>> we increase the memory that Maxima + ECL can use? >>> The limits ECL has are by default too small for big applications, but >>> it is intentionally done so. However, changing them is pretty easy: >>> add a call to ext:set-limit in any file of maxima that forms part of >>> the final executable. >>> >>> The different memory limits that can be independently controlled are listed >>> here >>> http://ecls.sourceforge.net/new-manual/re34.html >>> So for instance, in your case, which hits the dynamically allocated >>> memory limit, you might add the following >>> (ext:set-limit 'ext:heap-size (* 1024 1024 1024)) >>> to maxima/src/ecl-port.lisp in order get 1GB memory limit. >>> >>> Juanjo >> >> Thanks!!! I've made this trac #6772: >> >> http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/6772 >> >> -- William > > You may note your trac is owned by 'mabshoff'
He automatically owns all tickets with component "packages". I guess I should fix that since he's not working on Sage now. Thanks. > > Since this intensionally limited, Perhaps Juanjo can say the reason for > limiting the memory usage? Would making it a TB be any problems? That's the first thing I want to try :-) > > > > -- William Stein Associate Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
