Re: virtual memory limit
Re: virtual memory limit
- Subject: Re: virtual memory limit
- From: Tom Duffy <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 05 Aug 2009 08:31:11 -0700
Do you mean swap? If so, you can turn off the dynamic pager.
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On Aug 5, 2009, at 7:57 AM, Roger Herikstad
<email@hidden> wrote:
Hi list,
I was wondering if there is a way to set a limit on how much
virtual memory the operating system should be allowed to allocate? I
have a MacPro with 16G of memory running 10.5.6. When using 64 bit
applications to analyze big data sets it happens occasionally that
the application requests more memory than can be accommodated on the
system. As a result, pages are written to disk until there's no more
disk space available, which hangs the machine.. Is there a way to
change this behavior, such that I would get a memory allocation
error instead when (some times accidentally) trying to allocate such
huge chunks of memory? Thanks!
~ Roger
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