Re: [Maxima-discuss] [Maxima-commits] [git] Maxima CAS branch master updated. branch-5_47-base-1896-g4c8127730

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

On 4/23/25 10:12 AM, Camm Maguire wrote:

> Greetings!
>
What’s the magic to limit gcl from using too memory? While building 
maxima and doing some other stuff, my laptop (16 GB) froze and I had to 
power cycle it losing whatever I was working on.

My desktop with 32 GB killed my gcl build for using too much memory. (I 
was probably running 2 VMs at the time, though, but still.)

Whatever the defaults are for gcl, it’s very, very unfriendly. I would 
think gcl should be able to build itself and maxima using no more than 4 
GB of memory. Cmucl can build itself and maxima with just 512 MB heap 
and certainly less than 1 GB. I don’t recall having this issue with gcl 
2.6.14.

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