On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 9:56 AM, Thierry Dumont
<[email protected]> wrote:
> I have two computers, and sage installed on both:
>
> 1) Ubuntu 12.04 , sage-7.3 on an nfs mount,y
>
> 2) Ubuntu 16.04,  sage-7.3 on a local system, on a ssd.
>
> With the first one, sage starts slowly (as could be expected!), and I
> have time to look at sage starting with "top". And during the starting
> phase, before the prompt, sage uses more than 16 GB of virtual memory
> (VIRT: 16.380g); the same quantity is used when stopping sage (in the
> console interface).
> It seems quite large, no ?
>
> With the second machine, it's more difficult to see what happens with
> top, but it does not seems to use more than 7gb.
>
> Why such a large amount of memory ? (ok, it's  virtual, but it's large,
> no ?).

I think this is a hack that is used by PARI/GP, due to their
"interesting" primitive (but fast!) memory design.

 -- William

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