How to use ALLOCATE to expand the space in maxima?



Dear all
I tried to process the attached file (16to4.mac) in batch mode by typing
maxima -b 16to4.mac
in my gnome-terminal. But after several tens of minutes, I got the
following message:
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Maxima encountered a Lisp error:

Error in PROGN [or a callee]: The storage for CONS is exhausted.
Currently, 91277 pages are allocated.
Use ALLOCATE to expand the space.

Automatically continuing.
To reenable the Lisp debugger set *debugger-hook* to nil.
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It seems that the storage allocated for the function CONS is not enough,
But I don't know
how to expand the space in maxima, Can anyone help me ! Thank you in
advance!

PS:
1. My OS is Ubuntu dapper , the maxima version on my machine is 5.9.2 ;
2. the file 16to4.mac is designed to reduce a 16-variable linear
equation set to a 4-variable linear
equation set using the eliminate function.

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