Michel Talon <talon <at> lpthe.jussieu.fr> writes:
> a colleague has the following problem with maxima 5.27.0 on a Mac running Mac
> OS 10.6.8 with 8 Gigs memory, which suggests a bug somewhere:
>
> Maxima 5.27.0 http://maxima.sourceforge.net
> using Lisp SBCL 1.0.55.0-abb03f9
> ; compiling (LET* (# #) ...)Heap exhausted during garbage collection: 0 bytes
> available, 4104 requested.
I seem to recall that SBCL allocates all of the memory it will
ever use when it is launched. Maybe it's possible to fix the
problem by allocating more memory. sbcl --help seems to list
some relevant options.
You might have to resort to the SBCL mailing list (sorry, I don't
have a reference).
best
Robert Dodier