From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Fri Jan 23 15:31:31 2004
Subject: Re: empirical_inv() out of memory
From: "Dmitri A. Sergatskov" <dmitri at unm dot edu>
To: gdg at zplane dot com
Cc: help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 14:30:26 -0700

Glenn Golden wrote:
> Running 2.1.50: 
> 
> Is the following a reasonable out-of-memory situation? 
> 
> 
>     1>   f = 1 - 10 .** [-1:-1/3:-6];
>     2>   g = abs(rand(4e6,1)) .** 2;
>     3>   empirical_inv (f, g)
>     error: memory exhausted -- trying to return to prompt

I run it on my computer while watching 'top' in other terminal.
It went through, but octave process size at its maximum was 1201MB.

octave:4> empirical_inv (f,g)
ans =

  Columns 1 through 8:

   0.80973  0.90918  0.95752  0.98002  0.99069  0.99565  0.99796  0.99907

  Columns 9 through 16:

   0.99957  0.99981  0.99991  0.99996  0.99998  0.99999  1.00000  1.00000

Regards,

Dmitri.



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