On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 9:30 AM, zieglerk <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm using sage from the command line (or more precisely through emacs > sagemode). > > Let me ask the opposite question: How can I allocate *more* memory to > the sage process. Sometimes extensive calculations break of with an > "out of memory" message. (Or is this more an issue of my OS?)
That is an OS problem. It has little to do with Sage. > As a footnote: I can not find any documentation on "ulimit" on the > command line. Does this only apply to the notebook? ulimit is a bash command. Type "man bash" and search the docs for ulimit. > > Regards, > Konstantin > > On Feb 7, 3:11 am, William Stein <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 5:46 PM, Robert Bradshaw >> >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> > On Feb 6, 2010, at 5:42 PM, Minh Nguyen wrote: >> >> >> Hi folks, >> >> >> I received an email asking the following question: >> >> >>> Is there any way of stopping a Sage program from eating up all available >> >>> system memory? A program I'm running just keeps using up more and more >> >>> memory until my computer becomes almost unusable. >> >> > From the command line, control-C (and, that failing, control-Z, kill %1). >> > From the notebook, do "restart." This should be in the FAQ. >> >> Also, you should learn about the "ulimit" command. >> >> William > > -- > 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 > URL: http://www.sagemath.org > -- 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 URL: http://www.sagemath.org
