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Re: E/L runs out of memory



>>>>> "Tim" == Tim Holmes <holmes@gorilla.nbn.com> writes:
In article <DosK90.EyM@gorilla.nbn.com> holmes@gorilla.nbn.com (Tim Holmes) writes:


    Tim> I'm using E/L 199q8 on a Pentium box with 32 meg memory.
    Tim> When I open 3-4 large spreadsheets, it starts slowing down,
    Tim> eventually giving me an out of memory error.  If I go to an
    Tim> xterm and do a free command it shows more memory available.
    Tim> Not even into swap, which I have 20 meg configured.

    Tim> Can executor only access a certain amount of memory?  This is
    Tim> using Excel 4.0.

By default Executor/Linux only assigns 2 MB of memory for the
"application zone", which is the portion of memory where most
applications store their data.  You can trivially expand this with the
"-applzone" command line switch:

executor -applzone 4m

will increase that limit from 2 MB to 4 MB.  If you ask for too much
memory then Executor will use virtual memory and you'll slow down, but
on your configuration, you should be able to say "executor -applzone
16m" with no penalty.

    Tim> Tim Holmes holmes@gorilla.nbn.com

--Cliff
ctm@ardi.com


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