When built with sbcl, maxima imposes a default memory limit of 512 MiB on i386, and 1 GiB on amd64. The limit can be changed by defining DYNAMIC_SPACE_SIZE in the build environment. The limit can be overridden later, at run-time, via the -X or --lisp-options options, or by defining the environment variable MAXIMA_LISP_OPTIONS.