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Re: Memory problem [message #58735 is a reply to message #3153]

Fri, 15 February 2008 11:53

Kenneth P. Bowman
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<55a45ed0-d7ea-4e0f-8cc7-7c619e4e3a9a@e23g2000prf.googlegroups.com>,
greg.addr@googlemail.com wrote:

>> IDL> print, 5287*7707*8*4
>> 1303901088
>>
>> about 1.3 GB.
>>
>> This is doable on a 32-bit system (assuming that you have 2 GB of RAM),
>> but you will not be able to create two such arrays.
>
> That certainly isn't doable on my 32-bit XP system (2 GB) - its
> limit's just under 1 GB for a single allocation. I've recently started
> using a 64-bit XP exactly to get around this problem. The new system
> seems to be able to allocate properly up to the limit of RAM (I've
> tried to 8 GB):
>
> IDL> a=bytarr(8,1000,1000,1000,/nozero)
>
> Greg

Oh, I should have assumed it was Windows.

Ken

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		Memory problem By: weertj on Sun, 27 November 1994 18:06
		Re: Memory problem By: pook41 on Sat, 16 February 2008 03:21
		Re: Memory problem By: Kenneth P. Bowman on Fri, 15 February 2008 11:53
		Re: Memory problem By: greg.addr on Fri, 15 February 2008 08:52
		Re: Memory problem By: zhouqiang.search on Fri, 15 February 2008 07:48
		Re: Memory problem By: Kenneth P. Bowman on Thu, 14 February 2008 06:51
		Re: Memory problem By: Jean H. on Thu, 14 February 2008 12:11
		Re: Memory problem By: zhouqiang.search on Thu, 14 February 2008 10:57
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