Re: memory exhausted error.

[GARY FORBIS]

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From: David Bateman

To: GARY FORBIS

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Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2008 12:13 AM

Subject: Re: memory exhausted error.

GARY FORBIS wrote:
> I've just started using Octave and am having trouble running MNIST from
> http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~hinton/MatlabForSciencePaper.html
> <http://www.cs.toronto.edu/%7Ehinton/MatlabForSciencePaper.html>
> Aside from the save and load syntax differences I'm getting
> 
>  error: memory exhausted or requested size too large for range of
>  Octave's index type -- execution of mnistdeepauto.m failed
> while executing this:
> 
> load digit9; digitdata = [digitdata; D]; targets = [targets; repmat([0
> 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1], size(D,1), 1)];
> I've been told there are some register settings I could change to fix
> this.
> 
> I'm using GNU Octave, version 3.0.0
> 
> Any help?
> 
> Thanks.

If this is the same bug report from the newsgroup comp.soft-sys.octave
then you need to point out that you are using the MSVC build under
Windows. I believe this is a known issue but don't remember the details,
so if some Windows user knows the registry magic needed to avoid this
issue send it here :-)

D.

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Yes, I was directed here from comp.soft-sys.octave.

 

I'm not sure this is a bug.  While it might be a memory model problem it might be a physical

memory limitation.  The error isn't clear to me.

 

Is the version from http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=2888&package_id=40078

the MSVC version?  It says "Octave Forge Windows".  Type is: .exe (32-bit Windows).

 

I guess I could start poking around it the source code but that seems like a daunting task for

someone just learning the application.

 

Thanks again.