Spice 3f5 on Linux. (fwd)


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From Paolo Nenzi <pnenzi@ieee.ing.uniroma1.it>
Date Tue, 21 Dec 1999 17:17:24 +0100 (CET)
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Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1999 17:15:26 +0100 (CET)
From: Paolo Nenzi <pnenzi@iol.it>
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Subject: Spice 3f5 on Linux. (fwd)



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Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1999 09:55:46 +0100 (MET)
From: tuckey@ieee.org
To: p.nenzi@ieee.org
Subject: Spice 3f5 on Linux.

Hi Paolo Nenzi,

Are you still working on Spice3f5?  If so I have a couple of patches I could
send you, later than the latest release of 3f5.

Also I've just built spice3f5 for my Linux box and it works well, except that
I can only access about 40% of the available memory.  I have 128MB of physical
mem, and 256MB of virtual mem, however if the mem usage goes above about 50MB
(according to top) I get realloc or malloc errors about can't allocate XXX
bytes and a core dump, or the machine locks up completely.

Is there a way of increasing the memory limit to say 300MB?  Compiler options?
Some limit coded in the source?

Thanks.

Actually I'm Interested in you work.  I may be able to help.

The thing that would make Spice3f5 REALLY BIG and USEFUL is a GUI for the
schematic - not a PSpice equivalent, just a circuit drawing package that
outputs the ASCII file - a separate file could be used to store all the stuff
like what simulation to do and time step parameters etc. and then a cat >>
through a shell script to get it to run.

-- 
Andrew Tuckey
Postdoctoral Research Scientist
Eindhoven University of Technology
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