strange decay of performance of Maxima



On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 12:04 PM, Oliver Kullmann
<O.Kullmann at swansea.ac.uk> wrote:

> I'm experiencing strange bad performance, which perhaps
> relates to bad memory management (using Maxima 5.17.1 and
> Ecl 8.12.0):

A couple of random ideas. (1) Maybe your system is swapping a lot,
that can slow down everything. If so, you could consider disabling swap.
(2) Maybe you can save the state of the computation (dunno what that
implies) and restart in a new session.

Sorry I can't be more helpful.

Robert Dodier