increasing the maximum number of pages



>>>>> "Jim" == Jim Schott <jschott at pegasus.cc.ucf.edu> writes:

    Jim> I am trying to increase the maximum number of pages of memory available in 
    Jim> maxima.
    Jim> Looking back through earlier posts on this thread, I found the suggestion:


    Jim> Maximal amount of memory GCL can allocate is determined at compile
    Jim> time. By default it is 32*1024 pages (page size may be different on
    Jim> different systems)
    Jim> which amounts to 128Mb of RAM with 4K page. If you really want more RAM
    Jim> for your computations you should rebuild GCL with
    Jim>    ./configure --enable-maxpage=64*1024
    Jim> or even more.


    Jim> I can't get this to work. Apparently, configure is some script that I don't 
    Jim> have anywhere in my maxima
    Jim> directories. Any suggestions about where I can download it?

If you really need this, you have to go and get a version of gcl and
build it yourself.  Perhaps this will help:
http://www.gnu.org/software/gcl/.

Alternatively, if you have clisp or cmucl or sbcl, you can rebuild
just maxima to use one of those.  The amount of memory is probably
larger.

Ray