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Re: AIX 4.3 Mathematica MathKernel Out of Memory

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• Subject: [mg24176] Re: AIX 4.3 Mathematica MathKernel Out of Memory
• From: Harald Giese <giese at ifm.uni-hamburg.de>
• Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 22:50:57 -0400 (EDT)
• Organization: Institut fuer Meereskunde, Universitaet Hamburg
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• Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

ecbrown at my-deja.com wrote:
> 
> Dear All:
> 
>         I am using Mathematica version 3.0 on an IBM
> RS6000 43P running AIX 4.3 with 2 GB of real
> memory (and a load of swap).  My problem is this:
> 
>         While there is clearly 1.6 GB of memory free, my
> Mathematica program runs out of memory and gives
> the error
> 
> Out of Memory.  Exiting.
> 
> once it consumes something like 160 MB (determined
> by following in top) of memory.  I checked out
> ulimit and it returned unlimited.  Is there
> something that I am forgetting or need to
> "switch?"  Any and all suggestions are welcome!
> 

Hi Eric,

I had this bug with Mathematica 3.0 for Windows.
http://support.wolfram.com/Systems/Windows/OutOfMemory.html

Maybe it is a similar bug for the AIX version - you should contact WRI.

Regards,
Harald
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Harald Giese
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Institut fuer Meereskunde der Universitaet Hamburg
(Institute of Oceanography of the University of Hamburg)
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