Re: Which version on which OS is fastest and stable?

[Robert A. Macy]

Running octave 2.1.50a-inst.exe on an XP

I use the following lines in a batch file to expand the
memory...

echo  Expand Octave Memory 
cd\
cd "Program Files"\"GNU Octave 2.1.50"\bin
regtool -i set "/HKCU/Software/GNU
Octave/Cygwin/heap_chunk_in_mb" 1024
regtool -v list "/HKCU/Software/GNU Octave/Cygwin"

octave used to crash constantly, now I can process files
over 30MB

                 - Robert -





On Mon, 23 May 2005 13:33:22 +0200
 <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have two questions:
> Which version on what OS should I use to get good
> performance and which
> version does not crash when doing repeated operations on
> very large
> data-sets?
> 
> Current situation:
> I am using the old 2.1.50 windows stand-alone binary.
> This works fairly
> well and is the fastest I have tested so far. But it
> repeatedly crashes
> when working with large amount of data, mostly it does
> manage to put out
> an "out of memory" error-message before disappearing. My
> assumption is
> that memory gets fragmented and then it fails to allocate
> the contigous
> memory chunks required for the data arrays. I tried to do
> a clear in
> between to reclaim memory but it doesn't really help.
> 



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