Lisp - expanding space for Maxima in Windows

I can only guess, but these are my estimates of likely hoods of three 
possibilities:

(90%)  Either the equations don't have a solution in terms of radicals, or 
they do but
       the solution is so huge that it is worthless (ill-suited for 
numerical evaluation,
       gives no particular insight to the physical problem, ...)

(9.99%) A bug prevents Maxima from finding the solution.

(0.01%) Expanding the available memory will allow Maxima to find a useful 
solution.

As for suggestions: either be satisfied with a numerical solution or try 
some other CAS
to try to solve them.

If you could post your equations, somebody might find a workaround (set 
algebraic to true,
try a Grobner basis, ...)

--Barton

maxima-bounces at math.utexas.edu wrote on 04/20/2010 04:19:00 AM:

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> [Maxima] Lisp - expanding space for Maxima in Windows
> 
> Brian Wylie 
> 
> to:
> 
> maxima
> 
> 04/20/2010 04:19 AM
> 
> Sent by:
> 
> maxima-bounces at math.utexas.edu
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I am running into a Lisp error in wxMaxima on Windows XP:
> 
> Maxima encountered a Lisp error:
>  Error in PROGN [or a callee]: The storage for CONS is exhausted.
> Currently, 14243 pages are allocated.
> Use ALLOCATE to expand the space.
> Automatically continuing.
> To enable the Lisp debugger set *debugger-hook* to nil.
> 
> Searching included help doesn't seem to be useful, and online archives
> turn up a hit in google but doesn't give a solution on how to
> allocate, or how much to allocate. I'm trying to perform the
> following:
> 
> solve([eq1, eq2, eq3, eq4, eq5, eq6, eq7, eq8, eq9], [sx, sy, sz, x0,
> y0, z0, alpha, %beta, gamma]);
> 
> where eq1...eq9 are horribly nonlinear. Suggestions?
> 
> Kind regards,
> Brian
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