Re: Memory requirements in Mathematica 6
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg83042] Re: Memory requirements in Mathematica 6
- From: Bill Rowe <readnewsciv at sbcglobal.net>
- Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2007 06:13:25 -0500 (EST)
On 11/7/07 at 6:37 AM, michael.weyrauch at gmx.de (Michael Weyrauch) wrote: >some years back we solved a problem using Mathematica 3 using >essentially a simple one line algorithm, which however used up >nearly all the 4 GB of memory on our Unix workstation. But it >worked... >Now with Mathematica 6 this very same program on a Linux 64 bit >workstation with 32 GB memory does not run any more. The memory the >Mathematica kernel demands just exceeds what is available, and the >kernel quits (or worse, it shuts down the entire machine and we are >in for a reboot. The latter effect just may be poor process >management on the side of our Linux kernel, which is not the issue >here.) >I just wonder if it is really possible that the internal storage >requirements of Mathematica 6 in order to store expressions have so >drastically increased (relative to version 3) that the effect >described above can be explained. Does anyone have similar >observations with Mathematica 6? Any other ideas or >suggestions? (Of course, tricks like Share[] have already been tried.) >Thanks for any hint.... And you are expecting meaningful hints when you have provided essentially no details as to the problem you are trying to solve or any code??? -- To reply via email subtract one hundred and four