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Re: memory allocation for structure arrays [message #11728 is a reply to message #11586]

Thu, 30 April 1998 00:00

korpela
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In article <Pine.SUN.3.91.980430131547.324A-100000@demsyd.syd.dem.csiro.au>,
Peter Mason <peterm@demsyd.syd.dem.CSIRO.AU> wrote:

> Do you get the error during the READU call? (i.e., Not during the REPLICATE
> call?) If so then there's something very odd going on here.
> Can you read the first few (say 10) records correctly? If so, then I'd say
> that there might be a bug in IDL on Linux.

I seem to recall that IDL uses a lazy-malloc() which allocates memory
without making sure there is enough available swap space. The swap
space is allocated as a portion of memory is paged out for the first
time. Therefore the out of memory error could during the READU call.

Eric
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