To locate the job editor, select Job
Editjobname from the main menu bar. Use the Memory tabbed page to control the amount of memory allocated to an ABAQUS analysis. You can control the following:
The number of megabytes of memory allocated by the analysis input file processor. The default is 256 megabytes.
The maximum amount of memory that can be allocated by an ABAQUS/Standard analysis. The default is 256 megabytes. For an analysis to run, you must specify an amount larger than the amount of performance-critical data for the analysis held in memory. If you specify a larger amount of memory than the amount of performance-critical data for an analysis, ABAQUS uses additional memory to improve speed of access to generic scratch data that otherwise would be written to disk. How much additional memory is used is determined by the ABAQUS/Standard memory policy setting.
The ABAQUS/Standard memory policy setting. The ABAQUS/Standard memory policy menu allows you to tune memory use, and you can select one of the following:
Minimum
The analysis will run using the minimum possible memory.
Moderate
The analysis will run holding the most performance-sensitive subset of the generic scratch data in memory. This is the default value and typically provides good performance at a reasonable memory cost.
Maximum
The analysis will use as much memory as it needs to hold all the generic scratch data in memory.
For more information about memory settings, see “Managing memory and disk use in ABAQUS,” Section 3.5.1 of the ABAQUS Analysis User's Manual.
You can use the ABAQUS environment file (abaqus_v6.env) to control the default value of the settings in the Memory tabbed page; for more information, see “Using the ABAQUS environment settings,” Section 3.4.1 of the ABAQUS Analysis User's Manual.
