Re: Large Files
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- Subject: [mg33074] Re: Large Files
- From: bghiggins at ucdavis.edu (Brian Higgins)
- Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2002 06:51:25 -0500 (EST)
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Erich, Simply increase the memory allocation for the Kernel and if needed the memory for Front End. On a Mac highlight the kernel icon and then type Control i, and then select the memory option in the dialog panel . I guess the same principle applies for a PC or Unix system.... Cheers, Brian Erich Mueller <emueller at pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu> wrote in message news:<a5hteg$hsn$1 at smc.vnet.net>... > I performed a rather large calculation, and saved the results in a file > using the construction > > Save["myfile.m",result] > > This file is about 1 gigabyte. > > > Today I wanted to do some extra analysis of the results, so I started a > new notebook and typed > > << myfile.m > > The kernel choked on this and I receive a message: > > No more memory available. > Mathematica kernel has shut down. > Try quitting other applications and then retry. > > Any advice on how to access all of this nice saved data? I can always > rerun my calculation, and save the results in more managable chunks, but > it is rather inconvenient, and will take up a couple of days. > > I am running Mathematica version 4.1 on windows 98: pentium 3-500 with > 320 megs of ram. > > > Erich