Re: computer memory and Octave

[Paul Roberts]

It looks like an out of memory issue to me. It would be good to check
the memory requirements for your program and compare that to the
available physical memory. For instance, check the size in bytes of
arrays that are persistent throughout all the replicates. Since you
are able to get 180 replicates, is it possible that the results are
being kept in memory rather than stored to disk and thus filling up
memory as more replicates are computed? One fix would be to store the
data on disk after each replicate.

Paul

On 7/11/06, Tracy Feldman <address@hidden> wrote:
> To whom it may concern:
>
> I am running Octave on a laptop with windows XP.  I have been trying to run
> a relatively complicated bootstrap program, and I hope to run 5000 bootstrap
> replicates.  Octave is crashing before 180 replicates have finished, and on
> the screen it gives the error messages listed below the text of this message
> (I do not understand the message except for the first line).
>
> I wondered if anyone can discern from the error messages below if this issue
> is caused by problems with the program itself (too much information stored
> at once), by limitations of my computer, or by limitations of Octave.  When
> I installed Octave (April 2006), my computer had only 512 megabytes of RAM,
> but we have since upgraded to 768 megabytes (my computer has a maximum
> capacity of 1024 megabytes). Could this affect how Octave is running?  I
> have not been using the computer actively for any other processes while
> running Octave.
>
> I would appreciate any help you might offer.  I hope I have given enough
> information.  Please reply to me directly, as I am not currently subscribed
> to this list.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Tracy S. Feldman
> Postdoctoral Associate at the Noble Foundation, in Ardmore, OK
>
> Here are the error messages I receive:
>
> error: memory exhausted - trying to return prompt
>
>     7 [main] octave-2.1.73 3512
> fhandler_dev_zero::fixup_mmap_after_fork: requested
> 0x20B30000 !=3D 0x0
> mem alloc base 0x0, state 0x10000, size 1062010880, Win32 error 1455
>
> 2129613 [main] octave-2.1.73 3512 C:\Program
> Files\Octave\bin\octave-2.1.73.exe: *** fatal error -
> recreate_mmaps_after_fork_failed
>
>      12 [main] octave 3056 child_copy: stack write copy failed,
> 0x22C1E0..0x230000, done 0, windows pid 2277652, Win32 error 5
>
> warning: in fopen near line 23, column 14:
> warning: fopen: default open mode is now binary
>
>
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