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