DumpSave
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- Subject: [mg25962] DumpSave
- From: "Gareth J. Russell" <russell at cerc.columbia.edu>
- Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 03:46:55 -0500 (EST)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
Hi,
I am having trouble with DumpSave. Since it may well be system specific, I'm
using a Macintosh G3 with 256MB RAM. I have 100MB allocated to MathKernel
and 50MB to the Front End.
My notebook generates a number of large arrays, typically about 1000 by 80
in size, and there may be around ten of these. They take hours to generate,
so I want to save them once done so I don't have to re-generate them each
time.
I've tried saving the whole lot with DumpSave["filename"], and also saving
individual arrays with DumpSave["filename.mx",arrayname]. The process
begins, the file is created on my computer, and sometimes stuff is written
to it, but Mathematica then hangs with a watch cursor. Command-period does not work
to break out of it, and my only option seems to be to force-quit Mathematica. This
ALWAYS happens with the whole-notebook save, and often with the individual
array save.
I have 386MB of space on the drive that is being saved to, so I don't think
that can be a problem.
Any tips for making DumpSave more reliable? I wondered if the fact that the
386MB is not contiguous might be a factor...
Gareth
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