Re: Which version on which OS is fastest and stable?

[Robert A. Macy]

uh,....cause that's where regtool.exe is

Don't know the downside.  

Haven't been able to do it in the Win98 machine yet.  but
haven't needed it, either.  I do the first crunch on big
data sets on the XP, then small crunches in the Win98.  

        - Robert -

On Mon, 30 May 2005 01:51:06 -0400
 Paul Kienzle <address@hidden> wrote:
> I'm curious why you need to be in the bin directory
> prior to modifying the registry.
> 
> I'm also curious if there are downsides, or if the
> registry should be set this way as part of install.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> - Paul
> 
> On May 30, 2005, at 1:31 AM, Robert A. Macy wrote:
> 
> > Running octave 2.1.50a-inst.exe on an XP
> >
> > I use the following lines in a batch file to expand the
> > memory...
> >
> > echo  Expand Octave Memory
> > cd\
> > cd "Program Files"\"GNU Octave 2.1.50"\bin
> > regtool -i set "/HKCU/Software/GNU
> > Octave/Cygwin/heap_chunk_in_mb" 1024
> > regtool -v list "/HKCU/Software/GNU Octave/Cygwin"
> >
> > octave used to crash constantly, now I can process
> files
> > over 30MB
> >
> >                  - Robert -
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Mon, 23 May 2005 13:33:22 +0200
> >  <address@hidden> wrote:
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> I have two questions:
> >> Which version on what OS should I use to get good
> >> performance and which
> >> version does not crash when doing repeated operations
> on
> >> very large
> >> data-sets?
> >>
> >> Current situation:
> >> I am using the old 2.1.50 windows stand-alone binary.
> >> This works fairly
> >> well and is the fastest I have tested so far. But it
> >> repeatedly crashes
> >> when working with large amount of data, mostly it does
> >> manage to put out
> >> an "out of memory" error-message before disappearing.
> My
> >> assumption is
> >> that memory gets fragmented and then it fails to
> allocate
> >> the contigous
> >> memory chunks required for the data arrays. I tried to
> do
> >> a clear in
> >> between to reclaim memory but it doesn't really help.
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> >
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