[ADMB Users] memory allocation error

[Ian Taylor - NOAA Federal]

No worries Mark,
Glad to know things worked out for you faster than my catching up on old
emails.
Just when everything is going smoothly, you can switch to Windows 8 and
start over.
-Ian



On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 11:54 AM, Fowler, Mark <Mark.Fowler at dfo-mpo.gc.ca>wrote:

> Sorry, Ian, that was solved as well…****
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> I’m with stupid. I got my model folders crossed up at some point between
> program and data. Both Borland and MinGW models work fine (just had to put
> the MinGW model back to the original memory settings). I am so sorry. I’m
> not usually this disorganized, the new OS is garbling me a bit.****
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> *From:* users-bounces at admb-project.org [mailto:
> users-bounces at admb-project.org] *On Behalf Of *Ian Taylor - NOAA Federal
> *Sent:* August 27, 2013 3:29 PM
> *To:* dave fournier
> *Cc:* users at admb-project.org
> *Subject:* Re: [ADMB Users] memory allocation error****
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> Hi Mark,****
>
> I don't have any good ideas on how the change in operating would have
> messed up your old model. ****
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> However, ADMB's default memory settings were improved last year with 100x
> increases in GRADSTACK_BUFFER_SIZE and CMPDIF_BUFFER_SIZE. Therefore, your
> model might work just fine if you simply delete that block of lines related
> to memory and run with the defaults. ****
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> Since your model is monstrous, it may need adjustment, but the error
> messages you get will hopefully be specific enough to tell you which
> setting(s) to increase, rather than the uninformative allocation error that
> you got.****
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> -Ian****
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> On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 9:11 AM, dave fournier <davef at otter-rsch.com>
> wrote:****
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> I would run it in debug mode and find out the line where it crashes.
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> Otherwise a common cause of this is that the program is getting a bad
> number somehow
> and doing something like this
>
>    dvector v(1,n);   // n contains garbage which is interpreted as a huge
> number.
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