Re: Spice 3f5 on Linux. (fwd)


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From Paolo Nenzi <pnenzi@ieee.ing.uniroma1.it>
Date Tue, 21 Dec 1999 17:17:49 +0100 (CET)
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Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1999 17:15:38 +0100 (CET)
From: Paolo Nenzi <pnenzi@iol.it>
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To: pnenzi@ieee.ing.uniroma1.it
Subject: Re: Spice 3f5 on Linux. (fwd)



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Date: Mon, 20 Dec 1999 17:51:08 +0100 (MET)
From: tuckey@ieee.org
To: p.nenzi@ieee.org
Subject: Re: Spice 3f5 on Linux.

Dear Paolo Nenzi,

Thank you for the reply about Spice 3f5.  

> Yes, now we have a web site and other good news. The web site is
> http://ieee.ing.uniroma1.it/ngspice. We have some mailing list dedicated
> on it, whay do not join us ?

I'll join, but no promises on the amount of work I can do - I have a family 
too.

> > 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?
> No, spice uses dinamic allocation, so in theory there is no fixed limit.
> If you experience that problem, it can be caused by some bug in the code.
> You can send us the netlist and we will try to fix it (no promise)

I have a fix from someone else - I'll send you his email.

-- 
Andrew Tuckey
Postdoctoral Research Scientist
Eindhoven University of Technology
EE Dept., Group EMV,  Room EL 1.13
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