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Re: IDL memory allocation limitation [message #20436 is a reply to message #20431]

Fri, 23 June 2000 00:00

Julie Greenwood
Messages: 6
Registered: December 1999

Junior Member

"Mark Rivers" <rivers@cars3.uchicago.edu> wrote in message
news:H9r45.99$v3.1429@uchinews...
> <snip>
> My problem is in the amount of memory which IDL can allocate. The
following
> table shows the maximum size BYTE array which I can allocate in IDL. This
is
> right after a system reboot, no other applications are running and this is
the
> first command entered in IDL.
>
> ferrari lotus
> b = bytarr(1024, 1024, 1007) b = bytarr(1024, 1024, 755)
>
> Thus, on ferrari I can allocate essentially 1 GB of memory, which is the
limit
> for a single Windows NT process. However, on lotus I can only allocate
.75 GB.
> Can anyone suggest why lotus would be limiting that maximum size array I
can
> allocate? It is a serious problem for the applications I am running.

Check that your virtual memory settings are sufficient - they are limited
only by free disk space (Start | Control Panel | System)

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