[sage-devel] Re: Gap produced error outputError, exceeded the permitted memory

2014-02-14 Thread Tobias Weich
Wow this was fast: 16h from the first report untill a positively revied bugfix! Thanks!!! Am Freitag, 14. Februar 2014 01:36:27 UTC+1 schrieb Volker Braun: > > Fix is at http://trac.sagemath.org/15819 (needs review) > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

[sage-devel] Re: Gap produced error outputError, exceeded the permitted memory

2014-02-13 Thread Volker Braun
Fix is at http://trac.sagemath.org/15819 (needs review) -- 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 gr

[sage-devel] Re: Gap produced error outputError, exceeded the permitted memory

2014-02-13 Thread Volker Braun
The CommandLineHistory variable seems to only exists in gap-4.7+ which I happened to have around. The gap version we ship also keeps a history, but does not make the global variable available. The history can be set to a fixed maximal length (say, 3) with SetUserPreference("HistoryMaxLines

[sage-devel] Re: Gap produced error outputError, exceeded the permitted memory

2014-02-13 Thread Volker Braun
The problem with Tobias' memory leak in the GAP interface seems to be that GAP keeps a log of all interactive commands in the undocumented variable "CommandLineHistory". This quickly fills up the available RAM if things are done in a tight loop: sage: G = DihedralGroup(6) sage: tbl = G.characte