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Re: "bombing" with large files


From: Robert A. Macy
Subject: Re: "bombing" with large files
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 20:09:19 -0700

Youse guys are making me lean more and more towards Linux!

                 - Robert -

On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 18:50:17 -0600
 "Dmitri A. Sergatskov" <address@hidden> wrote:
> Robert A. Macy wrote:
> > Actually, as a test I tried the following code, which
> > produces a variable that is similar in size and causes
> the
> > system to bomb.
> > 
> > sig=randn(1,2e6);
> > sig=[sig,sig,sig];
> > %  this is where it spits up....
> > sig=[sig,sig];
> > 
> > octave panics trying to do that last step.  
> > 
> >                   - Robert -
> 
> 
> This definitely works for me just fine (octave
> 2.1.60/Linux):
> 
> octave:1> sig=randn(1,2e6);
> octave:2> sig=[sig,sig,sig];
> octave:3> %  this is where it spits up....
> octave:3> sig=[sig,sig];
> octave:4> whos
> 
> *** dynamically linked functions:
> 
>    Prot Name     Size  Bytes  Class
>    ==== ====     ====  =====  =====
>     r-- dispatch 1x1       0  dynamically-linked function
>     r-- randn    1x1       0  dynamically-linked function
> 
> Total is 2 elements using 0 bytes
> 
> *** local user variables:
> 
>    Prot Name       Size           Bytes  Class
>    ==== ====       ====           =====  =====
>     rw- __nargin__ 1x1                8  scalar
>     rwd sig        1x12000000  96000000  matrix
> 
> 
> -- 
> Regards,
> 
> Dmitri.



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