Re: error: memory exhausted

[jcardoso]

Hi,

This has hapened to me, and the problem was 'ulimit': I was not
allowed to use more than a certain amount of memory, either
real or virtual. The solution might be system dependent, try
first 'man ulimit', then your system admin.

Joao

Mark Naylor wrote:
 | From: Mark Naylor <address@hidden>
 | To: undisclosed-recipients: ;
 | 
 | Hello Everyone,
 | 
 | I've been trying to use Octave recently for some calculations using very
 | large matrices. I'm getting the error message 
 | 
 | error: memory exhausted -- trying to return to prompt
 | 
 | I know the system I'm using does have enough memory (be it real or virtual),
 | does anyone know a way of persuading octave to allow very large matrices
 | if the system allows?
 | 
 | Thanks in advanced.
 | 
 | regars
 | 
 |                              Mark.
 | 
 | 

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