On 6/18/12 1:24 PM, Michel Talon wrote:
> 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.
>
> In fact we have already started maxima with a twice bigger dynamical memory,
> the result is the same, so hints to a bug. The appropriate invocation is:
FWIW, I just compiled lapack using sbcl 1.0.49, 32-bit, on OS X. It
took a while, but it finished. I'm not sure what the actual dynamic
space size is, but it's whatever the default is.
Ray