[BioC] vector allocation error

[Thomas Girke]

Ulrich,

Only on machines with 64 bit CPUs (e.g. Opteron) you can allocate more 
than 2-3 GB of RAM to a single process. Your Xeon CPUs are 32 bit which 
have a 'physical' memory limit. It is a nice machine to dedicate lots of 
memory to multiple processes, but never much more than 2 GB to a single 
one no matter what operating system you are using.

Upgrading your tetrad board to 64 bit may be more pricy than getting a
new single or dual 64 bit CPU (e.g. Opteron, MacG5) workstation with a 
unix type operating system (e.g. Linux, Mac OSX).

Thomas

On Fri 06/23/06 14:53, Ulrich Pfeffer wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> when analyzing more than 25 Affymetrix HGU133plus2 arrays the analysis 
> fails during background correction with GCRMA and the error message says 
> "cannot allocate vector of 301.000kB ...."
> 
> I got the message ot only from my PC but also form a more potent computer 
> (Ml570 G2,  4 CPU XEON MP 2.5/1Mb,
> 16 Gb RAM, s.o.  RH AS 4.0). It does not appear that the computer is using 
> all the memory available.
> 
> After my actual 30 arrays I must analyze 380, which problems will I face?
> 
> Any help?
> 
> Thanx,
> 
> Uli
> 
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