[SciPy-User] Problem with handling big matrices with Windows

[Matthieu Brucher]

Indeed, the official limit is 2GB (I usually had the option to use 3GB
activated).

2014-06-11 14:57 GMT+02:00 Sturla Molden <sturla.molden at gmail.com>:
> Matthieu Brucher <matthieu.brucher at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Your arrays have more than 800 millions entries, so even with floats
>> or int32, that means more than 3GB, meaning only one would fit in the
>> process memory.
>
> 32 bits applications on Windows only allow 2 GB of memory allocated from
> user space. The virtual memory space i 4 GB, but the kernel has reserved
> the upper half.
>
>
> Sturla
>
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