Is your computer running more than one gap process at a time? There are more states for swap space than free and used, it can also be exclusively reseved (but not necessarily used). This is what gap is doing and probably not reflected in your output.
On Tuesday, September 18, 2018 at 9:38:04 PM UTC+2, Simon Brandhorst wrote: > > sage: V = libgap.GF(13)^500 > sage: S = V.Subspaces(50) > sage: S.List() > gap: cannot extend the workspace any more! > > > As expected the computation runs out of memory. However, there is still a > lot of unused memory. > > Before: > > total used free shared > buff/cache available > Mem: 15G 1.8G 11G 290M > 2.3G 13G > Swap: 39G 0B 39G > > Right before termination > > Mem: 15G 5.7G 7.6G 287M 2.3G > 9.2G > Swap: 39G 0B 39G > > After > total used free shared > buff/cache available > Mem: 15G 1.6G 11G 287M > 2.3G 13G > Swap: 39G 0B 39G > > In > https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/sage-support/m6R8_NKepyQ > it is suggested to increase the swap space. > However with 40 GB of swap I can only use about 4GB. > On a different machine with 64 GB of swap I can use about 8 GB. > However assigning more swap is impossible as I start to run out of hard > disk space. > Can you reproduce this behavior? Suggestions? > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
