[Scilab-users] Scilab stops calculus

[Jean-Yves Baudais]

Hello,

  Two times Scilab was stuck after 20 hours of simulation (I used to do simulations that need more than one week with Scilab 5). It was big simulation with many levels of iterations (to evaluate probabilities), with intermediate results written in files (different files with save command and timestamp), and with the iteration numbers written in the Scilab window (so many output lines). All worked fine still Scilab locks with:
- no CPU activity (Scilab really stops all calculus, but not exits),
- low memory use as expected (no mem leakage),
- the Scilab window blocked, showing the intermediate iteration numbers (Scilab is blocked within an iteration, there is no input-output issues in this part of the code), but nothing can be done (CTRL-C, CTRL-D or any control command).
I must kill the Scilab process within a Shell terminal. I also executed the "faulty" iteration alone (with 1e4 sub-iterations in more or less 2 hours), but there is no problem. I obtained the result. So I can get around the problem, but not solved it.

Is there some known limitations? limited prompt lines for example...

Thanks

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Jean-Yves Baudais