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Re: Memory Headaches [message #31590 is a reply to message #31581]

Thu, 01 August 2002 09:23

David Fanning
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Registered: August 2001

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Ben (crono15m@aol.com) writes:

> I have a problem which seems to be getting more and more desperate and
> I'm hoping someone here may have some insight into it.
>
> I have a situation where there is no (practical) way around loading
> very large files into memory as IDL variables. The problem is that
> sometimes they are too big and I run out of memory. I've tried
> increasing the amount of virtual memory in the system but IDL doesn't
> seem to know how to take advantage of all the virtual memory available
> so it's probably capped.

Well, it's definitely capped, but nowhere near 1GByte. Here
is an article from RSI's web page that you might find interesting:

http://www.rsinc.com/services/output.cfm?tip_id=3346

Cheers,

David
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		Re: Memory Headaches By: Pavel A. Romashkin on Thu, 01 August 2002 15:01
		Re: Memory Headaches By: David Fanning on Thu, 01 August 2002 09:23
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