memory tops out at 1.84gb on OS X 10.4 machine w/ 5GB ram
On 12/15/05 10:36 AM, "Albert Vilella" <avilella at gmail.com> wrote:
El dj 15 de 12 del 2005 a les 08:17 -0500, en/na Roger D. Peng va escriure:
I'm not completely sure, but I don't think OS X is at the point yet where it can access > 2GB of memory (like, for example, Linux on Opteron). More specifically, I'm not sure a single process image can access > 2GB of memory, but I'd welcome any corrections to that statement. To be sure, this problem is not an issue with R because R has regularly been reported to access u> 4GB of memory when the OS allows it.
I may seen somewhere that OSX has a "per process" limit of ~1.5GB max RAM,
I don't think this is true. See here for Apple's answer: http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Performance/Conceptual/ManagingMemo ry/index.html Note that receiving a malloc error means that malloc failed. Therefore, what you see in ActivityMonitor is the memory consumption BEFORE a large memory block is allocated, if I understand things correctly. Correct me if I'm wrong here, please. Sean