Re: [Numpy-discussion] Not enough storage for memmap on 32 bit Win XP for accumulated file size above approx. 1 GB

2009-07-24 Thread Kim Hansen
2009/7/23 Charles R Harris charlesr.har...@gmail.com: Maybe I am measuring memory usage wrong? Hmm, I don't know what you should be looking at in XP. Memmapped files are sort of like virtual memory and exist in the address space even if they aren't in physical memory.  When you address an

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Not enough storage for memmap on 32 bit WinXP for accumulated file size above approx. 1 GB

2009-07-24 Thread Citi, Luca
Hello! I have access to both a 32bit and a 64bit linux machine. I had to change your code (appended) because I got an error about not being able to create a mmap larger than the file. Here are the results... On the 32bit machine: lc...@xps2:~$ python /tmp/ppp.py Created 1 writeable mmaps

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Not enough storage for memmap on 32 bit WinXP for accumulated file size above approx. 1 GB

2009-07-24 Thread Kim Hansen
2009/7/24 Citi, Luca lc...@essex.ac.uk: Hello! I have access to both a 32bit and a 64bit linux machine. I had to change your code (appended) because I got an error about not being able to create a mmap larger than the file. Here are the results... On the 32bit machine: lc...@xps2:~$

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Not enough storage for memmap on 32 bit WinXP for accumulated file size above approx. 1 GB

2009-07-24 Thread David Cournapeau
Kim Hansen wrote: 2009/7/24 Citi, Luca lc...@essex.ac.uk: Hello! I have access to both a 32bit and a 64bit linux machine. I had to change your code (appended) because I got an error about not being able to create a mmap larger than the file. Here are the results... On the 32bit

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Not enough storage for memmap on 32 bit WinXP for accumulated file size above approx. 1 GB

2009-07-24 Thread Kim Hansen
I tried adding the /3GB switch to boot.ini as you suggested: multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS=Microsoft Windows XP Professional /noexecute=optin /fastdetect /3GB and rebooted the system. Unfortunately that did not change anything for me. I still hit a hard deck around 1.9 GB.

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Not enough storage for memmap on 32 bit WinXP for accumulated file size above approx. 1 GB

2009-07-24 Thread David Cournapeau
Kim Hansen wrote: I tried adding the /3GB switch to boot.ini as you suggested: multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS=Microsoft Windows XP Professional /noexecute=optin /fastdetect /3GB and rebooted the system. Unfortunately that did not change anything for me. I still hit a hard deck