I can make my observation now a bit more precise, and I am sure that there is a memory problem.
I used sage -pip install memory_profiler Let memory.py be the following file: ################################################### from memory_profiler import profile @profile def check_good(n): for P in Posets(n): Q = P.with_bounds() print get_memory_usage() @profile def check_bad(n): for P in Posets(n): Q = P.with_bounds() x = Q.moebius_function(Q.bottom(), Q.top()) print get_memory_usage() ########################################################## The session below shows that no additional memory is allocated by check_good and, for n<7 by check_bad(n). However, check_bad(7) allocates additional memory on every run. Eventually, my computer runs out of memory and the process is killed :-( Help is very much appreciated! Martin ┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ SageMath version 8.5.beta4, Release Date: 2018-11-18 │ │ Using Python 2.7.15. Type "help()" for help. │ └────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ ┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓ ┃ Warning: this is a prerelease version, and it may be unstable. ┃ ┗━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┛ sage: load('/home/martin/memory.py') sage: %load_ext memory_profiler sage: check_bad(3) 6216.8828125 Filename: /home/martin/memory.py Line # Mem usage Increment Line Contents ================================================ 21 210.5 MiB 210.5 MiB @profile 22 def check_bad(n): 23 227.0 MiB 2.9 MiB for P in Posets(n): 24 227.0 MiB 13.5 MiB Q = P.with_bounds() 25 227.0 MiB 0.0 MiB x = Q.moebius_function(Q.bottom(), Q.top()) 26 227.0 MiB 0.0 MiB print get_memory_usage() sage: check_bad(3) 6217.1328125 Filename: /home/martin/memory.py Line # Mem usage Increment Line Contents ================================================ 21 227.2 MiB 227.2 MiB @profile 22 def check_bad(n): 23 227.2 MiB 0.0 MiB for P in Posets(n): 24 227.2 MiB 0.0 MiB Q = P.with_bounds() 25 227.2 MiB 0.0 MiB x = Q.moebius_function(Q.bottom(), Q.top()) 26 227.2 MiB 0.0 MiB print get_memory_usage() sage: check_good(7) 6247.0390625 Filename: /home/martin/memory.py Line # Mem usage Increment Line Contents ================================================ 15 227.2 MiB 227.2 MiB @profile 16 def check_good(n): 17 256.9 MiB 18.8 MiB for P in Posets(n): 18 256.9 MiB 10.9 MiB Q = P.with_bounds() 19 256.9 MiB 0.0 MiB print get_memory_usage() sage: check_good(7) 6247.296875 Filename: /home/martin/memory.py Line # Mem usage Increment Line Contents ================================================ 15 256.9 MiB 256.9 MiB @profile 16 def check_good(n): 17 257.2 MiB 0.3 MiB for P in Posets(n): 18 257.2 MiB 0.0 MiB Q = P.with_bounds() 19 257.2 MiB 0.0 MiB print get_memory_usage() sage: check_bad(7) 6250.765625 Filename: /home/martin/memory.py Line # Mem usage Increment Line Contents ================================================ 21 257.4 MiB 257.4 MiB @profile 22 def check_bad(n): 23 260.5 MiB 2.6 MiB for P in Posets(n): 24 260.5 MiB 0.5 MiB Q = P.with_bounds() 25 260.5 MiB 0.0 MiB x = Q.moebius_function(Q.bottom(), Q.top()) 26 260.5 MiB 0.0 MiB print get_memory_usage() sage: check_bad(7) 6255.66796875 Filename: /home/martin/memory.py Line # Mem usage Increment Line Contents ================================================ 21 260.5 MiB 260.5 MiB @profile 22 def check_bad(n): 23 265.4 MiB 3.4 MiB for P in Posets(n): 24 265.4 MiB 1.5 MiB Q = P.with_bounds() 25 265.4 MiB 0.0 MiB x = Q.moebius_function(Q.bottom(), Q.top()) 26 265.4 MiB 0.0 MiB print get_memory_usage() sage: check_bad(7) 6258.890625 Filename: /home/martin/memory.py Line # Mem usage Increment Line Contents ================================================ 21 265.4 MiB 265.4 MiB @profile 22 def check_bad(n): 23 268.8 MiB 2.8 MiB for P in Posets(n): 24 268.8 MiB 0.5 MiB Q = P.with_bounds() 25 268.8 MiB 0.0 MiB x = Q.moebius_function(Q.bottom(), Q.top()) 26 268.8 MiB 0.0 MiB print get_memory_usage() -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.