[Ecls-list] What to do about "Too many heap sections" ?

[Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll]

On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 7:56 PM, Oliver
Kullmann<O.Kullmann at swansea.ac.uk> wrote:
> I get the error message
>
> Too many heap sections: Increase MAXHINCR or MAX_HEAP_SECTS
>
> but from the five resource categories
>
> frame-stack, binding-stack, c-stack, heap-size, lisp-stack
>
> it seems none addresses this? I also can't find information
> about this for Linux ("ulimit" doesn't seem to know about
> heap sections)?

This seems like some obscure setting in the garbage collector library,
not part of ECL. Is your program consuming a lot of memory? Does it
have a lot of very large blocks?

Juanjo

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