The matrix is 1681x1681 with 8240 non-zero entries (i.e. 0.29% non-zero).
I'm not sure how this relates to your second comment though :)

On Monday, January 26, 2015 at 5:48:37 PM UTC+1, Andreas Noack wrote:
>
> How large is the matrix and what is the sparsity? 
>
> You might be able to get closer to what you want by using shifts in eigs. 
> Then you'll get the values closest to the value of the shift.
>
> 2015-01-26 11:41 GMT-05:00 Andrei Berceanu <andreib...@gmail.com 
> <javascript:>>:
>
>> Indeed it seems to work with complex matrices as well. What would be very 
>> useful for me is the ability to get eigenvalues within a certain interval, 
>> emin to emax. I dont see this in the capabilities of eigs.
>>
>> //A
>>
>> On Monday, January 26, 2015 at 4:21:58 PM UTC+1, Andreas Noack wrote:
>>>
>>> Yes. There is some extra output including convergence information and 
>>> the Ritz vectors. It should probably be explained in the manual, but the 
>>> first argument is the values. You can avoid the vectors with ritzvec=false, 
>>> so something like
>>>
>>> eigs(A, ritzvec = false)[1]
>>>
>>> should give you the largest (in magnitude) values.
>>>
>>> I think the documentation is simply wrong when stating that the matrix 
>>> has to be real. I just tried a complex matrix and it worked just fine, so 
>>> please open an issue about the documentation.
>>>
>>> 2015-01-26 10:03 GMT-05:00 Andrei Berceanu <andreib...@gmail.com>:
>>>
>>>> Besides, the help of eigs says "using Lanczos or Arnoldi iterations for 
>>>> real symmetric or general nonsymmetric matrices respectively". Mine is 
>>>> hermitian, i.e. complex and symmetric.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Monday, January 26, 2015 at 4:02:16 PM UTC+1, Andrei Berceanu wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> That seems to return a lot of things besides the eigenvalues.
>>>>>
>>>>> On Monday, January 26, 2015 at 3:43:01 PM UTC+1, Andreas Noack wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> You can use eigs. Usually, you only ask for a few of the values, but 
>>>>>> in theory, you could get all of them, but it could take some time to 
>>>>>> compute them.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 2015-01-26 9:40 GMT-05:00 Andrei Berceanu <andreib...@gmail.com>:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Is there any Julia function for computing the eigenvalues of a 
>>>>>>> large, sparse, hermitian matrix M? I have tried eig(M) and eigvals(M) 
>>>>>>> and 
>>>>>>> got the "no method" error.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> //A
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>
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