Re: Possible to increase 256 Mb Memory Limit? (Windows 2000)

[Kalle August Raiskila]

On Tue, 16 Nov 2004, Richard Thomas wrote:

> Apologies if this is an old issue, but I couldn't find any relevant answers 
> in the 2004 archive or the online help..
>
> I have installed octave-2.1.42-windows-atlas.exe binary from octave.sf.net on 
> a Windows2000 PC, selecting the octave-2.1.42-p4atlas version. Although I 
> have ~ 1 Gb memory, Octave seems to give a "memory exhausted" error message 
> when it hits the 256 Mb boundary, for example by typing the following:
>
> clear all; a = zeros(5000,6000);
>
> Is there any way to increase this memory limit? (preferably without having to 
> compile from source code, or to install cygwin standalone).

This is an OS issue.
The above example works on linux and SunOS, but fails on OSF1 (alpha).

What you need is to tune up (if possible) the amount of virtual memory per
process.

HTH
Kalle



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