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Re: Memory Headache II [message #37897 is a reply to message #37830]

Mon, 02 February 2004 10:07

Pavel Romashkin
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Registered: April 1999

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Have you tried to allocate smaller arrays in a loop and see how much you
can allocate? IDL allocates ram for some extra stuff when using FLTARR
and such, like indices.
If you weren't on OSX, I'd say your limitation is due to memory
fragmentation, but I don't know how OSX handles this.

Pavel

David T wrote:
>
> In article <MPG.1a86c395d77cb5af9897c6@news.frii.com>, David Fanning
> <david@dfanning.com> wrote:
>
>> http://www.dfanning.com/file_io/lgfiles.html
>
> I think you meant:
>
> http://www.dfanning.com/fileio_tips/lgfiles.html
>
> I did read that thread, and the underlying issues described seemed to
> be pretty windows specific. I don't think Win32 issues will have a
> direct metaphor in FreeBSD, will they? I mean not beyond the inability
> to get a 64 bit pointer, that is. Again, I don't see what my arrays
> top out at 1.6 GB instead of 1.9 GB. in Mac OS X.

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		Memory Headache II By: David on Fri, 30 January 2004 13:06
		Re: Memory Headache II By: Craig Markwardt on Mon, 02 February 2004 20:12
		Re: Memory Headache II By: Pavel Romashkin on Mon, 02 February 2004 10:07
		Re: Memory Headache II By: David T on Sun, 01 February 2004 22:11

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