Re: Will adding RAM help "No more memory available" error?
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- Subject: [mg89713] Re: Will adding RAM help "No more memory available" error?
- From: Jens-Peer Kuska <kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de>
- Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 06:42:00 -0400 (EDT)
- Organization: Uni Leipzig
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- Reply-to: kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de
Hi, a) adding RAM is always a good idea. b) set $HistoryLength=0; and call Share[] in you loop (after 20-100 iterations) use the Hold attribute for functions huge data parameters. Regards Jens Erin Noel wrote: > I have a rather large program the imports data from excel (approximately > 600x200) and runs a monte carlo simulation on that data. For large numbers > of iterations, roughly about 5000, Mathematica runs out of memory and > returns the following error: > > No more memory available. > Mathematica kernel has shut down. > Try quitting other applications and then retry. > > My question doesn't relate specifically to my code, which is why I am not > including any details of it. Generally speaking, will adding RAM to the > system help prevent this error? Are there any other general methods for > decreasing the likelihood of this error that aren't code-specific? >