Re: [Help-glpk] glpk on a machine with little memory

[Michael Hennebry]

On Wed, 16 Jan 2008, Andrew Makhorin wrote:

> > I have a large model which I want to run on a machine with small amount
> > of memory (80M), which leads to xmalloc errors.
> > Is there a way of capping memory consumption (i.e. by caching to disk)? I
> > realize this would impact performance.
>
> No, it is impossible. Glpk keeps all its data structures in the main
> core and has no out-of-core features.

Just give it 3 GB of swap space.
One doesn't need to tell glpk about it.

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