[Scilab-users] Increasing Scilab default Java heap memory to 512 MB?

[Samuel Gougeon]

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http://mailinglists.scilab.org/Scilab-users-Headless-graphics-in-scilab-time-memory-issues-tp4041133p4041160.html

Le 15/12/2020 à 18:58, Samuel Gougeon a écrit :
> Le 03/12/2020 à 09:59, Antoine Monmayrant a écrit :
>>
>> Hello again,
>>
>> Just to add to my previous message: increasing nx or ny in my script 
>> can crash scilab during the call to xend().
>> On my small local machine, this occurs for:
>>
>>     nx=4000;
>>     ny=3000;
>>
>> for which scilab takes ~7 seconds to create the png in "normal" mode...
>>
>> Can any of you confirm this bug?
>>
>
> The crash is due to a too small Java Heap of memory.
> When increasing it through the user's Preferences from 256 MB to 1 GB, 
> the PNG export works as fast as expected.
>
By the way, everyone, what do you think about increasing the default 
Scilab java Heap from 256 MB to 512 MB?
This default 256 MB was set a long time ago, when on computers the 
average RAM what much smaller than today...

Samuel

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