On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 2:26 AM, Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll<juanjose.garciarip...@googlemail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 10:57 AM, William Stein<wst...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Note that Sage's Maxima uses ECL. So the basic question is, how can >> we increase the memory that Maxima + ECL can use? > > The limits ECL has are by default too small for big applications, but > it is intentionally done so. However, changing them is pretty easy: > add a call to ext:set-limit in any file of maxima that forms part of > the final executable. > > The different memory limits that can be independently controlled are listed > here > http://ecls.sourceforge.net/new-manual/re34.html > So for instance, in your case, which hits the dynamically allocated > memory limit, you might add the following > (ext:set-limit 'ext:heap-size (* 1024 1024 1024)) > to maxima/src/ecl-port.lisp in order get 1GB memory limit. > > Juanjo
Thanks!!! I've made this trac #6772: http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/6772 -- William --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-support-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
