From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Sun Feb 22 20:50:22 1998
Subject: Re: memory exhausted
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: Peter Tufvesson <tuwe at flakey dot df dot lth dot se>
Cc: help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Sun, 22 Feb 1998 20:51:02 -0600

On 22-Feb-1998, Peter Tufvesson <tuwe at flakey dot df dot lth dot se> wrote:

| 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)

Perhaps this indicates a bug.  Unfortunately, there is no way for me
to tell for sure because you haven't supplied enough information for
me to be able to reproduce the problem, and unless I can do that, it's
not very likely that I'll be able to fix it.

If you think you have found a bug in Octave, please send a complete
recipe for reproducing the bug to bug-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu dot 
Please also read the section on how to report bugs in the Octave
manaul, or read http://www.che.wisc.edu/octave/bugs.html, to find out
how to write a bug report that will allow the problem to be fixed.

Thanks,

jwe