Re: [Maxima-discuss] gcl memory usage

[Raymond T. <toy...@gm...>]

>>>>> "David" == David Scherfgen via Maxima-discuss <max...@li...> writes:

    David> Maybe you're right, Robert.



    David> But I still think that Gunter may have misinterpreted GCL_MEM_MULTIPLE.

    David> If, as stated in his comment, memory usage becomes a
    David> problem in multi-user environments, then I think it's the
    David> sysadmin's responsibility to restrict memory usage of *all*
    David> the processes of each user. At least on Linux, this is
    David> possible.

    David> Limiting only Maxima's memory consumption to an
    David> (arbitrarily chosen) fraction if total memory doesn't seem
    David> like the right solution. And it prevents me from using all
    David> memory if I really need/want to.

I agree that the user should be able to allocate however much memory
he wants.

I do have issues with gcl defaulting to all available physical memory,
but that's not maxima's fault. (I have 128 GB of memory on machine at
work, but only 8-12 GB at home.  Does gcl really need to allocate 128
GB of memory to itself?  Is there really a maxima use-case that won't
fit in 8-16 GB of memory?  That seems like a more useful default
limit.)

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Ray