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 > > t.d. > > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sage-support" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-support. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- William (http://wstein.org) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-support" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-support. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
