Re: [Sbcl-devel] heap exhausted on creation of 100-million element list

[Juho S. <js...@ik...>]

Erik Garrison <eri...@gm...> writes:
> I have a machine with 2gb of RAM.  When running this particular example,
> the heap was exhausted with 500mb allocated by SBCL.  Over 500mb
> remained free in the system.  Why won't SBCL dip into that memory? 

The amount of physical memory you have in your computer is
irrelevant. SBCL pre-allocates at startup all the address space that
it's going to use. If you want to use a different amount, you can use
the --dynamic-space-size runtime option.
 
-- 
Juho Snellman