Re: Preventing swapping (high memory use)
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- Subject: [mg99881] Re: Preventing swapping (high memory use)
- From: "Dr. David Kirkby" <david.kirkby at onetel.net>
- Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 02:31:22 -0400 (EDT)
- References: <gum0f5$q4v$1@smc.vnet.net>
Szabolcs Horvát wrote: > Sometimes I don't realize how much memory a computation would take up > (or I simply make a mistake, and start a calculation that requires too > much memory), and my computer starts swapping. > > This makes Mathematica (and often the OS too) completely unresponsive > for a long time. In this case my only hope is that in spite of the > system unresponsiveness I can manage to kill the kernel, so that I can > at least save the notebook ... > > Is there any way to prevent swapping, for example by putting a cap on > the kernel's memory use? Even if the kernel just quits when it runs out > of memory, I still have the notebook. But if the computer gets so > unresponsive that I have to restart it, then I lose the notebook too, > which is a much more serious loss ... > > I tried using MemoryConstrained (with $Pre), but it seems to constrain > only the memory used by current computation, not the full kernel memory use. > > > To summarize: I'm simply looking for a way to prevent the computer from > locking up because of excessive swapping. > What OS ?