From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Sun Feb 22 08:05:59 1998
Subject: Re: memory exhausted
From: Peter Tufvesson <tuwe at flakey dot df dot lth dot se>
To: help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Sun, 22 Feb 1998 15:05:46 +0100 (MET)



On Thu, 19 Feb 1998, Mirek Kwasniak wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 18, 1998 at 06:19:09PM +0100, Fulko van Westrenen wrote:
> > 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I made a quick-and-dirty function-file to do some filtering using fft.
> > The datafile contains 2318x2 points (the measured variable and time)
> > When I try to filter I get 
> > error: memory exhausted -- trying to return to prompt
> > 

I have also encountered memory exhaustion under Linux. I have access to
both a Sun running Solaris and a PC running Linux. The only thing I do is
creating (large) vectors, like:
SampleVector(index)=100;
...and so on. Under Solaris the process occupies around 5MB, under linux
more that 60MB! (I don't know exactly how much since my virtual memory is
exhausted)

I use the precompiled version available for Linux on a Pentium system.

/Peter