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Re: Maximum memory under Windows NT [message #14583]

Fri, 12 March 1999 00:00

korpela
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In article <F8I05L.C2J@midway.uchicago.edu>,
Mark Rivers <rivers@cars3.uchicago.edu> wrote:
> a = bytarr(1024, 1024, 1024)
> i.e. it cannot allocate a 1 GB array, but it succeeds at
> a = bytarr(1024, 1024, 1000)
> i.e. just less than 1 GB.

I'm not really a Windows person, but I seem to recall that the
Windows address space is divided up into chunks. The memory
at linear addresses above 1 GB, IIRC is for shared memory, system
memoory, and DLLs.

Eric

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