>> First of all, this is not a crash, it is an error message. Second, how did> you determine that memory usage is just 300 MB?>
I was able to get the number of plant I want by tweaking the macro as
mentioned above and calling the macro 3 times for 1/3 the number of plants
(with a different seed). It seems the memory usage flushes out once I exit
the macro. No crashes now.
