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Re: memory problems for Mathematica 3 under NT

• To: mathgroup@smc.vnet.net
• Subject: [mg10724] Re: memory problems for Mathematica 3 under NT
• From: "P.J. Hinton" <paulh@wolfram.com>
• Date: Mon, 2 Feb 1998 00:44:19 -0500
• Organization: Wolfram Research, Inc.
• References: <6as6i2$f3i@smc.vnet.net>

On 30 Jan 1998, Bob Young wrote:

> We run Mathematica on both Linux and NT machines.  We have some cases
> where Mathematica fails - "out of memory" - on an NT machine while a
> same size machine with Linux has no problems.  It fails when NT still
> thinks it has plenty of virtual memory left. Anyone have any
> suggestions of how to get around this problem - while still using NT?

I can't be certain for your problem; however, we have found that
replacing the kernel loader program MathKernel.exe with a newer version
fixes some of the spurious "out of memory" error messages.  

See URL:

 http://www.wolfram.com/support/Systems/Windows/OutOfMemory.html

for details.

--
P.J. Hinton
Mathematica Programming Group           paulh@wolfram.com Wolfram
Research, Inc.                  http://www.wolfram.com/~paulh/
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