On 6/18/12 9:37 AM, Robert Dodier wrote:
> 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
>
>
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Hi.
Just for another data point, I tried it on Mac OS 10.7.4 with a 64-bit
sbcl-1.0.57 and got pretty much the same result as above on a machine
with 16 GB of RAM.
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