Re: error: memory exhausted or requested size too large for range of Octave's index type --

[Przemek Klosowski]

On 03/15/2011 02:43 PM, Martin Helm wrote:

> Not a problem at all with 32 bit octave if you use version 3.4 since only the
> index is limited to 2e9 not the bytesize of the array. An array can have up to
> 16 GB (if you have enough RAM + Swap).

I don't understand that---in a 32-bit environment, the virtual address 
of each process is limited to 32 bits i.e. 4GB. It's true that you can 
have multiple processes, each with 32-bit address space, that span 
36-bit (64GB) physical memory, but that doesn't help octave.

p.klosowski