Maple Error Levels

From the Maple menu, choose Settings and click the General tab. This page contains an Error Level box. The error levels range from 1 to 8. Typically, you will have the error level set for 0, 1, or 2.

Here are the meanings of the various error levels:

Level Meaning
0 No messages under any circumstances
1 Beep if there is an error
2 Display errors in a dialog box
3 Display memory use in status area
4 Show all Maple commands sent in the
  status area
5 3 and 4
6 Show memory use in dialog boxes
7 Show all Maple commands sent in
  dialog boxes
8 6 and 7

There are eight memory-use numbers displayed. A typical display looks like this:

1001684, 288768, 126.417, 0, 250000, 132847, 140124, 4

The numbers have the following meaning:

Number Meaning
1 Total number of words requested of the
  storage allocator
2 Total number of words currently allocated
3 Number of CPU seconds used
4 Words increment for `words used' messages
5 Words increment for automatic garbage
  collection
6 Number of words returned in last garbage
  collection
7 Number of words available after last
  garbage collection
8 Number of times that garbage collection
  was executed

Each word takes four bytes. Multiply the word numbers by four to get the number of bytes involved.