Re: Dynamic Workspace setting

[John Darrington]

On Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 08:19:54AM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote:
     Possibly it would be OK to just default to "no limit" and allow the
     operating system to swap.  We could then give advice to users to better
     handle the case where a file is much larger than memory.  This might be
     better than an arbitrary limit these days.

Without having thought about it very carefully, I probably agree.    These 
questions seem to come up quite a lot, so perhaps we should put a  page on 
the web site about optimising for large datasets.

J'

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