On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 6:39 PM, John Voight <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello all, > > I'd like to keep the Sage notebook open and running for my students on > a server machine, but when I do it immediately hogs all 4GB of > memory! (Even after I kill the notebook and quit sage, according to > "top" the memory is not released for some time.)
Can you post the output from top? Does the evident hogging of all memory actually make it so everything else swaps, etc.? > > Is there a way to limit the total memory that the notebook is allowed > to use? Did you try running ulimit first then the notebook? Did the notebook still run? Type "man bash" and search for ulimit to learn how to use ulimit. > I see there is a ulimit command, but I would guess this > limits each individual process, not the total memory used? > > Thanks, > > John Voight > Assistant Professor of Mathematics > University of Vermont > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.cems.uvm.edu/~voight/ > > > -- William Stein Associate Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
