Hi,
I am trying to fit a linear mixed effects model (lme) with a variance 
covariance matrix that has 148248^2 entries. I get the error message: 
error: cannot allocate vector of size 2243241 kb

However, I am running this on a sun sparc (solaris 2.8) with 20GB of ram, 
using R 1.7
Is this a hard limit I am reaching or does this have to do with how sun 
segments memory?

I can probably rewrite the model to be a bit more sensible with how 
resources are used,
but I thought i could brute force it since we have the power.

Thanks
Nicholas
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