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Re: limit on number of matrices?


From: Mirek Kwasniak
Subject: Re: limit on number of matrices?
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 18:43:55 +0100
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On Sat, Mar 16, 2002 at 12:40:14PM -0600, Mike Miller wrote:
> Obviously, availability of memory limits the total size of
> arrays/matrices/vectors that can be used by Octave.  But is there an upper
> limit on the number of matrices that can be defined?  For example, if I
> have plenty of memory and I want to run an Octave job that will create
> 50,000 small matrices and manipulate them, will I have a problem?

Hi, I don't see that is a problem. It may depend on your system resourses.
I stressed my 1GB Athlon 1600+ with 150,000 matrices(2000,1) = 16KB each :)

octave2.1:1> tic,for i=1:150000;eval(sprintf('a%d=rand(2000,1);',i));end,toc
ans = 130.96 <--- seconds
octave2.1:2> a1(1:5)',a150000(1:5)'
ans =
  0.326492  0.102862  0.690691  0.701181  0.019097
ans =
  0.64449  0.17821  0.88323  0.32264  0.94248
octave2.1:6> 150000*2000*8/(1024^2)
ans = 2288.8 <--- MiB
    
    
Mem:    901360K total,   898140K used,     3220K free,     1020K buffers
Swap:  2097136K total,  1562620K used,   534516K free,     8292K cached

  PID USER     PRI  NI  SIZE  RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM   TIME COMMAND
 6682 test1     17   0 2317M 833M 13092 S     0.0 94.6   1:11 octave2.1


Mirek



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