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From: Ward Poelmans <ward.poelmans@×××××××.be>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] limiting memory and mathematica
Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2004 20:54:23
Message-Id: 404E2EFC.1040607@pandora.be
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] limiting memory and mathematica by Denis Shcherbakov
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4 Denis Shcherbakov wrote:
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6 | I run Mathematica 5.0 on Gentoo Linux 1.4 (2.4.19-gentoo-r10 kernel) on a
7 | dual-processor machine. I was wondering why my graphic applications came
8 | to a screeching halt when I began running a computation in Mathematica,
9 | and then when I looked at top, my jaw droped - MathKernel is using ALL of
10 | my remaining memory, and I got 2 GB of it on this machine!
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12 Run Mathematica under a different user and use /etc/limits to
13 limit the memory usage of this new user ?
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15 Ward.
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