[gradsusr] Unable to allocate memory error

[Stephen McMillan]

Mark,
According to the documentation (
http://www.iges.org/grads/gadoc/gradcomdgrads.html), the -m option is
supplied at launch, for example, grads -m NNN.
Stephen


On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 1:22 PM, Mark Sponsler <msponsler at comcast.net> wrote:

> I've have the same question. How or where in grads does one actually
> invoke the -m option when grads runs on MS Windows?
>
>
>
> On August 8, 2014 9:42:38 AM PDT, Ricardo Hallak <
> ricardo.hallak at iag.usp.br> wrote:
>
>> Hi Stephen,
>> I remember i've already used the option -m with a very large additional
>> memory allocation for a high resolution (x,y) field, and it solved the
>> problem.
>> Your try was -m 3000000 (3 Mb) or 3 Gb (3.000.000.000)?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Ricardo
>>
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>> *De: *"Stephen McMillan" <smcmillan at planalytics.com>
>> *Para: *"GrADS Users Forum" <gradsusr at gradsusr.org>
>> *Enviadas: *Sexta-feira, 8 de Agosto de 2014 12:17:08
>> *Assunto: *[gradsusr] Unable to allocate memory error
>>
>> I've been running a script that uses high resolution data, but after a
>> point it generates an "unable! to allocate memory" error and stackdump, if
>> I use too large an x-y domain.  Looking at my Task Manager, this appears to
>> happen when it hits a 2GB memory ceiling for the GrADS process.  Total
>> laptop memory used at point of stackdump is under 5GB (I have 8GB RAM on my
>> Windows7 laptop).
>>
>> Is there any way within GrADS to increase the 2GB limit?  I tried using
>> the -m switch (-m 3000000, for example) when launching GrADS prior to
>> running my script.  By the way, the script works fine as long as it doesn't
>> hit the 2GB ceiling.  Is there something else I can do to overcome this?
>>  I've already iincluded code to undefine previously-defined variables as
>> soon as no longer needed.
>>
>> I'm using version 2.0.1.oga.1
>>
>> Thanks
>> Stephen McMillan
>>
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