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out of memory when using a breakpoint

exabwu — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 08:10:31 -0500

Hello,

while running the code the normal way usually makes no problem I get
an

??? Error using ==> zeros
Out of memory. Type HELP MEMORY for your options.

when I set a breakpoint within an function.

Rebooting the computer or restarting MATLAB doesn't help.

Many thanks, Ingo

Re: out of memory when using a breakpoint

Sadik — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 14:40:17 -0500

exabwu <exabwu@googlemail.com> wrote in message <3951b89a-71a5-4e62-bf6d-d21b13b763c8@r37g2000prr.googlegroups.com>...
> Hello,
>
> while running the code the normal way usually makes no problem I get
> an
>
> ??? Error using ==> zeros
> Out of memory. Type HELP MEMORY for your options.
>
> when I set a breakpoint within an function.
>
> Rebooting the computer or restarting MATLAB doesn't help.
>
> Many thanks, Ingo

Hello,

I believe you have written something like this:

zeros(10000)

when you wanted to make up a column or row vector. The way to fix this is to say

zeros(10000,1);

Hope this helps.

Re: out of memory when using a breakpoint

exabwu — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 09:36:37 -0500

On 19 Jan., 15:40, "Sadik " <sadik.h...@gmail.com> wrote:
> exabwu<exa...@googlemail.com> wrote in message <3951b89a-71a5-4e62-bf6d-d21b13b76...@r37g2000prr.googlegroups.com>...
> > Hello,
>
> > while running the code the normal way usually makes no problem I get
> > an
>
> > ??? Error using ==> zeros
> > Out of memory. Type HELP MEMORY for your options.
>
> > when I set a breakpoint within an function.
>
> > Rebooting the computer or restarting MATLAB doesn't help.
>
> > Many thanks, Ingo
>
> Hello,
>
> I believe you have written something like this:
>
> zeros(10000)
>
> when you wanted to make up a column or row vector. The way to fix this is to say
>
> zeros(10000,1);
>
> Hope this helps.

Thanks for you reply!

Actually we used MSaturation = zeros(1,2);

It only happens once in a while ?!

Re: out of memory when using a breakpoint

Walter Roberson — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 16:02:46 -0500

exabwu wrote:

> while running the code the normal way usually makes no problem I get
> an

> ??? Error using ==> zeros
> Out of memory. Type HELP MEMORY for your options.

> when I set a breakpoint within an function.

I -speculate- that you might have a variable that is not used, or perhaps even
a computation sequence which produces a result that is not used. -Possibly-
when you run normally, the Just In Time (JIT) compiler does not bother creating
the variable. When you set a breakpoint, though, because you might want to
examine any of the variables, the JIT cannot omit that variable -- and having
that variable might happen to cause you to run out of memory.

There are additional possibilities if you are running a function by putting
your cursor in the function in the editor and pressing F5: if you are
doing that, then there are situations where you could run into that kind
of problem if you have a name conflict between one of your variables and
one of the matlab routines: in such a case, when you ran "normally", the
JIT will (in some situations) call the Matlab routine instead of using
the variable of the same name {if the variable was "poofed into existance"
by load() or assignin() or eval() or similar mechanism, instead of being
the target of a visible assignment statement.}
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