SUMMARY: memory exhausted messages

[Roberto Dominijanni]

The original question:

> I'm running octave 2.0.5 under HP-UX 10.00 and am getting a lot of
> `memory exhausted' messages when I read in and process large data
> sets.  Is there some meory limit I can set at compile time or do I
> need to up maxdsiz in the system kernel?

I received two replies to the effect that Octave has no built-in limit
and recommending the Unix command ulimit.  There is no /usr/bin/ulimit
in HP-UX 10.00.  HP support recommended upping maxdsiz as the safest
route.

Thanks to:

Francesco Potorti (address@hidden)
Doug Warner (address@hidden)