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Re: an idl_opserver-like option for IDL 8.0? [message #73302 is a reply to message #73301]

Wed, 03 November 2010 10:29

David Fanning
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Registered: August 2001

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Doug Martin writes:

> Is anyone aware of a way to get IDL 8.0 to use a secondary routine
> like the idl_opserver.exe of 7.0? My problem is this:
>
> On a Windows XP SP2 machine, 2GB memory, in IDL 7.0 I could make and
> use reasonably large arrays - say,
> a=fltarr(512,512,1200). This used about 1 GB worth of memory.
>
> In IDL 8.0, I'm stuck with arrays with a max of about 500 MB memory
> before the good old "unable to allocate memory" message pops up. And
> this is after following the suggestion in Tech Tip 4603. Before that,
> I couldn't even get 200 MB reliably.
>
> In any case, does anyone know of a workaround here?

There was a problem in this version of IDL. There is
a workaround in the article:

http://www.dfanning.com/misc_tips/idl8mem.html

Cheers,

David

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David Fanning, Ph.D.
Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.dfanning.com/
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		Re: an idl_opserver-like option for IDL 8.0? By: Mark[1] on Wed, 03 November 2010 22:46
		Re: an idl_opserver-like option for IDL 8.0? By: David Fanning on Wed, 03 November 2010 17:49
		Re: an idl_opserver-like option for IDL 8.0? By: penteado on Wed, 03 November 2010 17:31
		Re: an idl_opserver-like option for IDL 8.0? By: David Fanning on Wed, 03 November 2010 11:17
		Re: an idl_opserver-like option for IDL 8.0? By: Doug Martin on Wed, 03 November 2010 11:09
		Re: an idl_opserver-like option for IDL 8.0? By: David Fanning on Wed, 03 November 2010 10:29

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