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Re: [Help-gsl] memory requirements for doing nonlinear least-squares fit
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Brian Gough |
Subject: |
Re: [Help-gsl] memory requirements for doing nonlinear least-squares fitting |
Date: |
Thu, 4 Nov 2004 18:00:15 +0000 |
Yiping Zhan writes:
> However, this only happens after at least 3 iterations. And the
> program works well for smaller datasets. The size 590368768 correspond
> to the size of the Jacobian matrix for my data (1600000 data entries,
> 46 parameters to fit) (BTW, my machine has >2GB of memory). However, I
> don't understand why the error only occurs after a few iterations. Is
> the memory usage supposed to increase as the number of iterations
> increase?
The memory usage should not increase simply by iterating the solution.
Only the gsl*alloc functions allocate memory.
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Brian Gough
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