Re: memory exhausted -- trying to return to prompt

[Ben Sapp]

Daniel Heiserer wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> I cannot allocate the memory I want:
> (I already had a similar problem before)
> 
> octave:73> 12350000*8/1e6
> ans = 98.8000000000000
> octave:74> 100*1e6/8
> ans = 12500000
> octave:75> clear;a=zeros(1.24E7,1);
> error: memory exhausted -- trying to return to prompt
> 
> octave:75> clear;a=zeros(1.235E7,1);
> octave:76> version
> ans = 2.0.14
> octave:77>
> 
> For me it looks like that octave cannot allocte
> more memory then 100MB. (?)
> Can anybody check this on other machines?
> My machine is a:
> ---------------------------------------
> Processor 15: 250 MHZ IP27
> Main memory size: 16384 Mbytes
> Instruction cache size: 32 Kbytes
> Data cache size: 32 Kbytes
> IRIX64 6.5  IP27
> ---------------------------------------

I have a machine very similar to yours and I do not see the problem
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2 180 MHZ IP27 Processors
CPU: MIPS R10000 Processor Chip Revision: 2.6
FPU: MIPS R10010 Floating Point Chip Revision: 0.0
Main memory size: 128 Mbytes
Instruction cache size: 32 Kbytes
Data cache size: 32 Kbytes
Secondary unified instruction/data cache size: 1 Mbyte
IRIX64 6.5.2f IP27
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Just to test if there was a memory leak I did 'clear;a=zeros(1.24E7,1);'
a few(4) times.  It was fine.  Notice that I also have much less memory
than you do!  I do not know what could be causing your problem.      

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