how to increase the maximum number of pages in gcl?



   Is there an argument on the command line when I run gcl, or is there 
   something I can edit in the config or makefile, which will give me some 
   extra room?


To enable a larger page table in gcl you must configure it at compile time:
cd gcl
./configure '--enable-maxpage=128*1024'
make

and then remove maxima/src/saved_maxima and remake in the maxima directory.

The default should probably be bigger now that memory is so cheap.

Note from the ./configure --help:
 --enable-maxpage=XXXX will compile in a page table of size XXX (eg '--enable-maxpage=64*1024' would give 64K pages allowing 256 MB if pages are 4K each) 


william