Re: FreeExpr called on live expr
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- Subject: [mg6351] Re: [mg6328] FreeExpr called on live expr
- From: Gianluca Gorni <gorni at dimi.uniud.it>
- Date: Thu, 13 Mar 1997 01:20:01 -0500 (EST)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
>The message "FreeExpr called on live expr" should never come up.
>This message means that the Mathematica kernel is releasing memory
>that is still being used. When you see this message, the Mathematica
>kernel will normally crash.
>
>We have not seen this problem on any computers other than SGI
>computers. Even on SGI computers, this problem is very rare.
>It seems to come up only in large programs that use a lot of
>memory and that take a long time to run.
>
>Dave Withoff
>Wolfram Research
I must report that last year I ran into a "FreeExpr called on live expr"
error when using Mathematica 2.2 on a Sun machine. It was a very
large algebraic calculation. I did not keep a record of the code
that caused the error.
Bye to all mathgroupers!
Gianluca Gorni
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