You usually have only about half of your 4 GB available to your application due to OS overhead.
On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 11:51 AM, Steven Taylor <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Bill, > > so in J does the OS still manage pulling parts of the file in / out of > memory? > > optimistic case: > Does 'size of viewport' mean that J takes x amount of the addressable > memory, yet the OS only loads in parts relevant to the current operation? > i.e. so long as you stay away from some safe threshold (say 1e9 * 0.66), > you > *should* be okay? In a 32 bit OS it's about 4 GB (1e_9 * 2^32 GB)? > > Thanks for the info Bill, Raul, and Lettow. > > re: JDB. I'll come back to this when I get a spare moment. I'm not sure I > want to tackle a new database just yet :) > > re: vector article, is that available on the vector.org.uk website > somewhere, or in the printed periodical? > > thanks, > -Steven > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > -- Devon McCormick, CFA ^me^ at acm. org is my preferred e-mail ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
