[GAP Forum] change size of memory used by gap

[Nasira Sindhu]

Dear GAP Forum,

I wrote a GAP programm which has a big need of memory. I use Win XP Home Editio SP3 on a P4 2,93 GHZ, 2GB RAM.
With the standard GAP installation, GAP starts with
C:\GAP4R4\bin\gapw95.exe -o 32m -l C:\GAP4R4\....

With the -o command you can change the size of the memory use, but when I change the memory to something like -o 512m I get an error message while running my programm:
gap: cannot extend the workspace any more
gap: Press <Enter> to end program

A look on the system monitor tells me that GAP did not really use the 512 mb.

What is wrong with my -o command?
Is there another way to get more memory for GAP?


Best regards,
Nasira
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