Chip Salzenberg on 24 Nov 2003 10:34:02 -0500


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[PLUG] Re: Why am I running out of memory?


According to Walt Mankowski:
> I've got a process that allocates huge chunks of memory to do matrix
> manipulations.  It runs fine for smallish matrices, but when the
> process size gets too big (somewhere on the order of 2 gigs, according
> to top) it aborts.

User processes on some are limited to 3G or so of virtual memory in
default kernel configs.  It's possible you're trying to exceed the
maximum virtual memory size of a process.  Or, perhaps, you just don't
have a 2G _hole_ in your process's virtual memory map.
-- 
Chip Salzenberg               - a.k.a. -               <chip@pobox.com>
"I wanted to play hopscotch with the impenetrable mystery of existence,
    but he stepped in a wormhole and had to go in early."  // MST3K
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