Re: Large arrays on 64 bit OS

[Thomas Weber]

On Mon, Jan 04, 2010 at 01:01:26PM -0800, big-ted wrote:
> 
> OK, I'm running some code that generates some very large arrays, and I'm
> getting the tell-tale "memory exhausted" error. I have found the info at the
> following link:
> 
> http://wiki.octave.org/wiki.pl?EnableLargeArrays
> http://wiki.octave.org/wiki.pl?EnableLargeArrays 
> 
> Now, I'm new to Octave, (but ok with MatLab) and to Linux. The instructions
> at the above link make no sense at all to me, and simply running the command
> lines as suggested results in "No targets specified and no makefile found."
> I notice that the link claims the instructions are good for octave 3.2.0 and
> up. I'm currently running octave 3.0.3. but running yum update octave
> insists that I already have the latest version. Actually, I have two
> systems. One 32 bit running Ubuntu 9.10, and one 64 bit running Fedora 10,
> both of which insist octave 3.0.3 is the latest and greatest version
> available. I can't find any rpm repositories to do a manual install of a
> later octave version either.p..

If you follow the above wiki pages, you must compile Octave yourself
(and quite a lot of libraries). Given the nature of your description, I
strongly advise you to not doing this. 64-bit support is experimental.

        Thomas