[GAP Forum] change size of memory used by gap

[Dmitrii Pasechnik]

Daniel,
in order to use more than 384Mb under Windows, you also
need to edit the registry,
as described in the link I posted earlier.
Best,
Dmitrii

On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 02:17:42PM +0800, Daniel Espinosa wrote:
>
> Dear Narisa Sindhu
>
> Under Win XP you only can use 3GB of total RAM. You should try
>
> C:\GAP4R4\bin\gapw95.exe  -o 512m -l C:\GAP4R4\....
>
> editing the
>
> C:\GAP4R4\bin\gap.bat
>
> file with "notepad" application or another text editor.
>
>
>
> Best Regards
> Daniel Espinosa
>
> On Fri, 27 Nov 2009, Nasira Sindhu wrote:
>
> > Dear GAP Forum,
> >
> > I wrote a GAP programm which has a big need of memory. I use Win XP Home Editio SP3 on a P4 2,93 GHZ, 2GB RAM.
> > With the standard GAP installation, GAP starts with
> > C:\GAP4R4\bin\gapw95.exe -o 32m -l C:\GAP4R4\....
> >
> > With the -o command you can change the size of the memory use, but when I change the memory to something like -o 512m I get an error message while running my programm:
> > gap: cannot extend the workspace any more
> > gap: Press <Enter> to end program
> >
> > A look on the system monitor tells me that GAP did not really use the 512 mb.
> >
> > What is wrong with my -o command?
> > Is there another way to get more memory for GAP?
> >
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Nasira
> >
>
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