On most OS's just because you have greater than a certain amount of physical memory does not mean that a SINGLE process can utilize it. For example, many times a single process is limited to 2, 3 or 4 gigabytes. This is EVEN with 64 bit pointers (and certainly with 32 bit).
Barry Run a simple C program that mallocs a chunk of memory. How much you you malloc? On Tue, 9 Oct 2007, Berend van Wachem wrote: > Hi, > > I ran the same command again, running top, and got the result > > Mem: 6220940k total, 5879056k used, 341884k free, 143992k buffers > Swap: 1951888k total, 2584k used, 1949304k free, 2363516k cached > > PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND > 19117 berend 25 0 3037m 2.5g 3508 R 100 41.4 0:44.96 MultiFlow > > > > just before it crashed. I have a 2 processor machine with total 6 GB of memory > (2 times 3 gb?), so I don't think it should be out of memory. How can I verify > this for sure? > > Thanks, > > Berend. > > > > Matthew Knepley wrote: > > On 10/9/07, Berend van Wachem <berend at chalmers.se> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > On the command > > > > > > ierr = DACreateLocalVector(da,g); CHKERRQ(ierr); > > > > > > I get the error > > > > > > > > > [0]PETSC ERROR: PetscMallocAlign() line 61 in src/sys/memory/mal.c > > > Memory requested 6050600 > > > [0]PETSC ERROR: PETSC: Attaching gdb to Debug/MultiFlow of pid 19087 on > > > display :0.0 on machine tfdpc102 > > > > > > > > > What does it mean exactly? Out of memory? > > > > Yes. This is strange. The line above these two should read "Out of memory". > > > > Matt > > > > > Thanks, > > > Berend. > > > > > > > > > > > >
