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kickaha ([personal profile] kickaha) wrote2005-05-28 12:46 pm

Silly boy...

No, you may *not* read a 4.8GB results file into memory, even with VM mapping, on a 32-bit system.

Re: heh

[identity profile] kickaha.livejournal.com 2005-05-28 11:00 pm (UTC)(link)
*laugh* Yeah, large dataspace manipulation is a pain. Up until this, the largest data I'd worked with was ~200MB, and this popped up in the middle of a bunch of tests unexpectedly.

I'm going to look into how to kick Python into doing the file read a bit more intelligently (perhaps breaking it up into pieces of a GB or so, ensuring that I don't break across a chunk I need to keep coherent during analysis), but it's a great justification for a Dual G5 and 10.4! :D

"No, really, I *need* the big iron to do my research honey, I *swear*!" ;)