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Re: running out of memory! can all memory be restored in idl? [message #34121]

Wed, 26 February 2003 14:19

wmconnolley
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Colette <heald@fas.harvard.edu> wrote:
> I've been told that our system does have all the artificial memory
> limits removed.

Fair enough, but type "limit" or "ulimit" (or ask your system folk what
the SGI version is) and see what it says.

> Our sysadmin tells me that we're running Origin 200 with irex 6.5.3.
> I'm using idl 5.3 in a multi-user configuration...at any time 6-8
> people can be running idl off the same server system. Do you know if
> idl shares memory from a common pool? I wonder if that may be

Assuming a standardish unix setup, yes. Run "top", and watch it as you
start IDL up: this should show you memory usage changing. At the least,
this should tell you what the system memory actually is both physical
and swap).

> contributing to my problem. I'm finding it really frustrating to deal
> with though since there seems to be no easy way to track memory within
> idl (I'm finding the help, /memory command to be quite cryptic).
> If you (or anyone else!) have any suggestions I'd love to hear them!

-W.

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		Re: running out of memory! can all memory be restored in idl? By: wmconnolley on Wed, 26 February 2003 14:19
		Re: running out of memory! can all memory be restored in idl? By: heald on Wed, 26 February 2003 13:22
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		Re: running out of memory! can all memory be restored in idl? By: Chris[1] on Thu, 27 February 2003 19:11

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