[7240] in Athena Bugs
vax 7.2R: macsyma
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Mon Mar 4 21:05:52 1991
From: jcchen@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Date: Mon, 04 Mar 91 21:05:32 EST
System name: aldous-huxley
Type and version: CVAXSTAR 7.2R
Display type: SM
What were you trying to do?
used polysolve command to solve 4th order polynominal.
then tried to substitute 'e22=e22, etc expressions in.
What's wrong:
macsyma ran out of storage space, yet had much swap and storage
space left. Eg, used unlimit command in xterm window macsyma started in.
(does this command affect macsyma? does macsyma have its own limits?).
( this expression is many many screens along.)
2 2 2 2
sqrt((a - 2 a + 1) eap q + (6 a b d - 2 a b + 4 a) q) + (2 a - 2) eap q,
[Storage space totally exhausted]
Space exhausted when allocating list
Error during display
(c93)
Current memory alloc is ....
athena% ps -u
USER PID %CPU %MEM SZ RSS TT STAT TIME COMMAND
jcchen 9357 0.6 2.6 252 159 p0 S 0:09 (csh)
jcchen 9369 0.0 50.3 5121 3218 p1 I N 21:23 (macsyma.dmp)
jcchen 9540 0.0 1.7 135 100 p0 R 0:00 (ps)
athena% limit
cputime unlimited
filesize unlimited
datasize 16384 kbytes
stacksize 16384 kbytes
coredumpsize unlimited
memoryuse 6295 kbytes
athena% /etc/pstat -s
12654k used (5138k text), 26684k free, 1601k wasted, 1568k missing
avail: 50*512k 1*256k 2*128k 2*64k 3*32k 4*16k 284*1k
what should have happened?
prog should not crash since pstat says 26 M of swap left.
Also, ps says macsyma used 5 M, and limit says can use
16 M.
sorry for the poor formats. had trouble saving this since the save
would have exceed hard disk quota.
