[Scilab-users] Update: Maximum allocation with Scilab 6.0 beta

[antoine.monmayrant at laas.fr]

Le 02/26/2016 01:17 PM, antoine.monmayrant at laas.fr a écrit :
> Hi all,
>
> For testing purposes, I am trying to allocate big chunks of memory 
> with scilab 6.0beta.
> I have ~256GB of free ram on my machine, however, Scilab fails 
> creating variables that are way smaller than that:
>
> --> a=rand(100000,100000);
>
> Can not allocate 80000.00 MB memory.
>
>
> Any idea what is going on?
> What is the actual ram limitation with the new "stackless" scilab?
>

Here is some more infon: it seems to be a "per variable" limit.
I can create many variables that are ~16GB, but cannot allocate one 32GB 
variable.
Is this limitation documented somewhere?

Antoine