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Re: why I can't use the max memory available? [message #54055 is a reply to message #54046]

Thu, 17 May 2007 10:42

David Fanning
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Registered: August 2001

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Jenny writes:

> Hi, I'm trying to use pcomp to calculate pca for a large number of
> variables, say over 10,000, only 6 observations though. I'm not sure
> if I'd obtain useful results by pca, but just want to give a try. On
> Windows XP Professional system IDL 6.3, I got the following error
> message: Unable to allocate memory: to make array
>
> However, when I type: help,/memory
> heap memory used: 2082561, max: 825942109, gets: 811,
> frees: 468
>
> My heap memory used is far smaller than the max available memory! I'm
> wondering why? Any ideas?

Try here:

http://www.dfanning.com/fileio_tips/lgfiles.html

Cheers,

David

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Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.dfanning.com/
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		Re: why I can't use the max memory available? By: Jean H. on Thu, 17 May 2007 15:19
		Re: why I can't use the max memory available? By: envi35@yahoo.ca on Thu, 17 May 2007 13:23
		Re: why I can't use the max memory available? By: David Fanning on Thu, 17 May 2007 10:42
		Re: why I can't use the max memory available? By: Rick Towler on Mon, 21 May 2007 15:21

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