Re: octave memory

[jean francois sauvage]

Thank you !

Well, I tried the getrusage function. On windows system (sigh...) all
the memory fields are filled with NaN.

thank you, again. I really appreciate the interest you show to solve
my problem ;o)



On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 7:52 PM, John W. Eaton <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 11-Feb-2009, jean francois sauvage wrote:
>
> | You are right, the inverse of a sparse matrix is generally not sparse.
> | My idea is to use Cholesky factorisation. But I want to know how much
> | space is needed by this factorisation. I can check this on Windows
> | Task Manager, but without separating the contributions of the
> | different process.
> |
> | but okay, it seems there is no built-in way to reach this information
> | from octave. maybe I can write an octave function interfaced with a
> | terminal command (like "top").
>
> I think the maxrss field of the structure returned by the getrusage
> function should give you what you want, but on my GNU/Linux system,
> that field is always 0.  So finding out why that happens and fixing
> the problem would probably be a better solution.
>
> jwe
>