Re: mathematica crashes after 10 seconds of computation
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- Subject: [mg27073] Re: mathematica crashes after 10 seconds of computation
- From: Anthony Yeung <syeung at cc.UManitoba.CA>
- Date: Sat, 3 Feb 2001 04:59:08 -0500 (EST)
- Organization: Department of Statistics, University of Manitoba
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In <9587kb$3cq at smc.vnet.net> "Paul Lutus" <nospam at nosite.com> writes: >"Anthony Yeung" <syeung at cc.UManitoba.CA> wrote in message >news:955vpp$2v at smc.vnet.net... >> hi all, >> I have this problem on my Win98 machine. The math kernel quits >> whenever the computation is intensive (for several seconds). It sounds >> like it hits the maxmemory and crashed. This computer is PIII 750 with >128Meg >> RAM. I don<t know how to fix it. The version of mathematica is version 4. >Please define "quits." Does it exit, or does it hang? And please tell us >what it is evaluating. >There are any number of legitimate expressions that will cause the kernel to >work indefinitely long, and use up lots of system resources as well. hi Paul, Now I got the message: The program has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down (Mathekernel) Invalid page fault in module mathedll.dll at 017f:6402ee45 Registers: Bytes at CS:EIP: Stack Dump: My system monitor indicates the unused physical memory is closed to zero and the swap space has just started to grow. I have lots of swap space though (Windows managing) thanks Anthony -- Anthony S. K. YEUNG, yeunant at statcan.ca