[erlang-questions] Crash on alloc - Email found in subject

[Imre Palik]

Feladó: Jachym Holecek [freza@REDACTED]
>> >
>> > This is the standard behaviour when the VM runs out of memory.... Try
>> > generating smaller lists or adding more memory to your computer.
>>
>> I have 3 Gigs, and as far as I can see, this fails on an alloc of less then 400 Megs. Does this quite reliably, even as the first command of the shell.
>
> Assuming you're running a Unix-like OS: try increasing your data area
> limit (man ulimit).

Nowdays, most of the time I am playing on windows.  I tried the same alloc on Linux, and there it seems to work OK.  Can it be that I have all the weirdness (I.e., memory problems, recursion slower than list comprehension) because of windows?

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