Dear Dima,
thank you so much. It works :-). I would suggest to hint at this solution
in the error message.
As soon as gap does not take sage with it anymore when running out of
memory.
Best
Simon
On Tuesday, September 18, 2018 at 10:10:06 PM UTC+2, Dima Pasechnik wrote:
>
> The arguments with which libgap is started are set up in
> src/sage/libs/gap/util.pyx
> in the function initialize()
> - setting various members of argv. In particular look for what `-o` is
> set to.
> By digging through the code, it appears that it's set by
> set_gap_memory_pool_size()
> from interfaces/gap.py
>
> So if you call set_gap_memory_pool_size with a big value, before
> starting libgap, you might get
> more (I didn't try)
>
> HTH,
> Dima
> On Tue, Sep 18, 2018 at 9:38 PM 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:
> >
> > totalusedfree shared
> buff/cache available
> > Mem:15G1.8G 11G290M2.3G
> 13G
> > Swap: 39G 0B 39G
> >
> > Right before termination
> >
> > Mem:15G5.7G7.6G287M2.3G
>9.2G
> > Swap: 39G 0B 39G
> >
> > After
> > totalusedfree shared
> buff/cache available
> > Mem:15G1.6G 11G287M2.3G
> 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?
> >
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