限制内存使用Unix

Question

I have access to a shared workstation running Linux and have to load in a large .csv file. However, I am uncertain how much memory that requires of the system as there will be some overhead and I am not allowed to use more than a specific amount of the memory.

So can I by any means limit the memory usage either inside Matlab or as I start the job itself? Everything need to happen through the terminal.

Answer 1

I you are using MATLAB R2015 or later you can setup the array size limits in the Preferences:

http://de.mathworks.com/help/matlab/matlab_env/set-workspace-and-variable-preferences.html

In my opinion it would be a better solution to control the array sizes by your script/function.