Re: Help me something about GNU Octave

[Henry F. Mollet]

on 1/17/08 6:22 PM, Johann Cohen-Tanugi at address@hidden wrote:

> hello,
> by sheer curiosity I gave a shot to this command :
> 
>   [u, s, v] = svd (rand (10000, 10000));
> and I actually get :
> octave:1> [u, s, v] = svd (rand (10000, 10000));
> error: memory exhausted or requested size too large for range of Octave's
> index type -- trying to return to prompt
> 
> any idea what could go wrong?  am on a linux FC7 laptop, and octve is built
> from cvs source :
> octave:2> version
> ans = 3.0.0+
> 
> best,
> J.
> 
I had the same problem on eMac (1.42 GHz PPC G4, 512 MB DDR SDRAM) running
Mac OS 10.4. 11 and Octave 3.0 application.
Henry

octave-3.0.0:1> [u, s, v] = svd (rand (10000, 10000));
octave-3.0.0(378) malloc: *** vm_allocate(size=800002048) failed (error
code=3)
octave-3.0.0(378) malloc: *** error: can't allocate region
octave-3.0.0(378) malloc: *** set a breakpoint in szone_error to debug
error: memory exhausted or requested size too large for range of Octave's
index type -- trying to return to prompt
octave-3.0.0:1>