Re: Mathematica lock-up when comsuming Win95 system resources
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- Subject: [mg13700] Re: Mathematica lock-up when comsuming Win95 system resources
- From: soiffer (Neil Soiffer)
- Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1998 04:39:29 -0400
- Organization: Wolfram Research, Inc.
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In article <6qp1i2$af8 at smc.vnet.net> "Barthelet, Luc" <lucb at ea.com> writes: >I suspect you are generating so much output that you are consuming the >system resources just formatting the output to be returned to the front >end. In general kernel operations can be aborted. Transfer of data >between kernel and front end cannot be. > >Start your session with this code. it will catch those big outputs that >can kill you. > >reallyBig[x_] := If[ByteCount[x] > 200000, "Too Large", x]; > $Post = reallyBig; In the next version, we have added code to the frontend so that you can interrupt long expressions sent to the frontend. The expressions still needs to be transferred and disposed of which is not not instantaneous for really large expressions, but it is much more responsive than before. Your solution will still be a useful solution; it nips the problem in the bud. Neil Soiffer Wolfram Research