On Dec 20, 2007 3:22 AM, Martin Spacek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sebastian Haase wrote: > > b) To my knowledge, any OS Linux, Windows an OSX can max. allocate > > about 1GB of data - assuming you have a 32 bit machine. > > The actual numbers I measured varied from about 700MB to maybe 1.3GB. > > In other words, you would be right at the limit. > > (For 64bit, you would have to make sure ALL parts are 64bit, e.g. The > > python version must be >=2.5, python must have been compiled using a > > 64-bit compiler *and* the windows version (XP-64)) > > This holds true the same for physical ram allocation and for memmap > > allocation. > > My solution to this was to "wait" for the 64bit .... not tested yet ;-) > > By the way, I installed 64-bit linux (ubuntu 7.10) on the same machine, > and now numpy.memmap works like a charm. Slicing around a 15 GB file is fun! >
Thanks for the feedback ! Did you get the kind of speed you need and/or the speed you were hoping for ? -Sebastian _______________________________________________ Numpy-discussion mailing list Numpy-discussion@scipy.org http://projects.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
