[sage-support] Re: how to stop a Sage program from consuming all available memory?

2010-02-07 Thread Alasdair
The problem was mine, which I first asked Minh, who kindly communicated it to the group. I have since discovered ulimit, which is a very powerful part of the bash shell. There is documentation: type "help ulimit" in a bash shell and you'll see the equivalent of a man page. ("man bash" is too hug

Re: [sage-support] Re: how to stop a Sage program from consuming all available memory?

2010-02-07 Thread David Joyner
On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 12:30 PM, zieglerk 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"

Re: [sage-support] Re: how to stop a Sage program from consuming all available memory?

2010-02-07 Thread William Stein
On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 9:30 AM, zieglerk 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" m

[sage-support] Re: how to stop a Sage program from consuming all available memory?

2010-02-07 Thread zieglerk
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?) As a footnote