Bash script for creating Glove word embeddings chrashes my hard disk for -vector-size >= 300

train_glove.sh

#!/bin/bash
set -e
# Makes programs, downloads sample data, trains a GloVe model, and then evaluates it.
# One optional argument can specify the language used for eval script: matlab, octave or [default] python
# Default configuration:
# dimensions: 100, minimum_word_frequency: 1, window: 8 and number_of_threads: 20.
#
# bash train_glove.sh -i $DATA/GUsDany/corpus/GUs_literature.txt\
# -o $DATA/vectors_H100_W8 -s 100 -m 1 -w 8 -t 20

while getopts ":i:o:s:m:w:t:" opt; do
  case $opt in
    i) inputf="$OPTARG"
    ;;
    o) outpuf="$OPTARG"
    ;;
    s) size="$OPTARG"
    ;;
    m) minc="$OPTARG"
    ;;
    w) win="$OPTARG"
    ;;
    t) tr="$OPTARG"
    ;;
    \?) echo "Invalid option -$OPTARG" >&2
    ;;
  esac
done

if [ -z ${outpuf+x} ]; then
    outpuf=glove_ctors
fi
if [ -z ${size+x} ]; then 
    size=100
fi
if [ -z ${minc+x} ]; then
    minc=5
fi
if [ -z ${win+x} ]; then
    win=15
fi
if [ -z ${th+x} ]; then
    th=8
fi

CORPUS=$inputf
VOCAB_FILE=vocab.txt
COOCCURRENCE_FILE=cooccurrence.bin
COOCCURRENCE_SHUF_FILE=cooccurrence.shuf.bin
BUILDDIR=build
SAVE_FILE=$outpuf
VERBOSE=2
MEMORY=4.0
VOCAB_MIN_COUNT=$minc
VECTOR_SIZE=$size
MAX_ITER=15
WINDOW_SIZE=$win
BINARY=2
NUM_THREADS=$th
X_MAX=10

if [ ! -f $VOCAB_FILE ]; then
	echo "$ $BUILDDIR/vocab_count -min-count $VOCAB_MIN_COUNT -verbose $VERBOSE < $CORPUS > $VOCAB_FILE"
	$BUILDDIR/vocab_count -min-count $VOCAB_MIN_COUNT -verbose $VERBOSE < $CORPUS > $VOCAB_FILE
fi
if [ ! -f $COOCCURRENCE_FILE ]; then
	echo "$ $BUILDDIR/cooccur -memory $MEMORY -vocab-file $VOCAB_FILE -verbose $VERBOSE -window-size $WINDOW_SIZE < $CORPUS > $COOCCURRENCE_FILE"
	$BUILDDIR/cooccur -memory $MEMORY -vocab-file $VOCAB_FILE -verbose $VERBOSE -window-size $WINDOW_SIZE < $CORPUS > $COOCCURRENCE_FILE
fi
if [ ! -f $COOCCURRENCE_SHUF_FILE]; then
	echo "$ $BUILDDIR/shuffle -memory $MEMORY -verbose $VERBOSE < $COOCCURRENCE_FILE > $COOCCURRENCE_SHUF_FILE"
	$BUILDDIR/shuffle -memory $MEMORY -verbose $VERBOSE < $COOCCURRENCE_FILE > $COOCCURRENCE_SHUF_FILE
fi

echo "$ $BUILDDIR/glove -save-file $SAVE_FILE -threads $NUM_THREADS -input-file $COOCCURRENCE_SHUF_FILE -x-max $X_MAX -iter $MAX_ITER -vector-size $VECTOR_SIZE -binary $BINARY -vocab-file $VOCAB_FILE -verbose $VERBOSE"
$BUILDDIR/glove -save-file $SAVE_FILE -threads $NUM_THREADS -input-file $COOCCURRENCE_SHUF_FILE -x-max $X_MAX -iter $MAX_ITER -vector-size $VECTOR_SIZE -binary $BINARY -vocab-file $VOCAB_FILE -verbose $VERBOSE

if [ "$1" = 'matlab' ]; then
	matlab -nodisplay -nodesktop -nojvm -nosplash < ./eval/matlab/read_and_evaluate.m 1>&2 
elif [ "$1" = 'octave' ]; then
	octave < ./eval/octave/read_and_evaluate_octave.m 1>&2
else
	echo "$ python eval/python/evaluate.py"
	python eval/python/evaluate.py --vectors_file $outpuf.txt
fi