Re: problem with Series
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- Subject: [mg13882] Re: problem with Series
- From: mefisher at my-dejanews.com
- Date: Sun, 6 Sep 1998 02:55:22 -0400
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I just ran
Series[ArcCot[x],{x,0,14}]//Timing
on my new Windows NT machine and got back 49.469 Second!! By the way,
this machine scored 4.05 on the benchmark notebook. Moreover, the NT
task manager reported an increase of 152 MB of memory used as the
computation proceeded. (Fortunately I have 384 MB RAM.) The memory was
not freed up after the calculation ended, but only after exiting
Mathematica. By contrast MemoryInUse[] reported an increase of only .3
MB!! I don't know what is going on. Can anyone shed some light?
--Mark
In article <6sikvj$48s at smc.vnet.net>,
gwesp at cosy.sbg.ac.at (Gerhard Wesp) wrote:
> when evaluating the command Series[ArcCot[x],{x,0,14}], mathematica
> seems to use up unreasonably huge amounts of memory, for example on
> our ultrasparc i interrupted it when ps -e -o
> user,pid,pcpu,pmem,vsz,rss,s,stime,time,args showed
> gwesp 2071 26.2 76.2 150024 95320 S 16:53:30 1:22
> /usr/common/mathematica-3.0.1/SystemFiles/Kernel/Binaries/Solaris/MathKernel
> -r
>
> the problem also exists on linux.
>
> taylor series computation is certainly not _that_ memory intensive, so
> this behaviour is bound to be a bug imo.
>
> could somebody try this out on a windows95/nt machine and inform me
> of the results?
>
> the version:
> In[21]:= {$Version,$ReleaseNumber}
>
> Out[21]= {Linux 3.0 (April 25, 1997), 1}
>
> best regards and tia,
> -gerhard wesp
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