[vtkusers] memory allocation on HP-UX 11.00

[Clinton Stimpson]

Check your kernel settings. 
The kernel on HP-UX 11.0 can limit memory used by one process and it is 
adjustable.

Clint

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>Message: 5
>Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 19:24:09 +0200
>From: Alexander Trum <alexander.trum at teraport.de>
>Subject: [vtkusers] memory allocation on HP-UX 11.00
>To: vtkusers at vtk.org
>Message-ID: <412A2839.2060506 at teraport.de>
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>Hello
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>I have an application based on VTK on HP-UX 11.00 compiled with 
>gcc3.2.1. It works very well. But if i tried to allocate more than round 
>about 500 MB memory in one block, my applications says that there is no 
>more memory. The machine has at this time 1.5 GB free memory!.
>So i wrote a little test program which tries to allocate more than 500 
>MB memory in one call to malloc and it failed too.
>So is there a compiler option (as on IBM AIX) or something like that to 
>increase the size of memory which can be allocated in one malloc call?
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>Thanks, Alex
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