Looking for a 64-bit build with large memory limit
Subject: Looking for a 64-bit build with large memory limit
From: Paul Richards
Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2007 15:02:32 +0000
On 04/12/2007, Andrey G. Grozin <A.G.Grozin at inp.nsk.su> wrote:
> On Sun, 2 Dec 2007, Paul Richards wrote:
> > I frequently running out of memory when using Maxima. From what I can
> > tell Maxima/GCL is artificially limiting itself to a fairly small
> > amount of memory (quite annoying when you actually have several GiB
> > of physical memory available).
> I successfully installed 64-bit sbcl and compiled maxima with it on a
> 64-bit Linux (SUSE). The default memory limit is several GiB, don't
> remember exactly.
>
I ended up doing something similar. I used the prebuilt Ubuntu
version of sbcl to build Maxima from source. I think it has an 8GiB
limit by default, which for what I'm trying to solve still wasn't
enough.
I think I need to bite the bullet and find a more intelligent way of
solving my equations; rather than just blindly plugging them into some
CAS software.
--
Paul Richards