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[ferret_users] Mac memory limit problem?



Ferret users (on Mac in particular),

It seems that memory that Ferret can use is limited to about 1 GiB
(giga bytes) and I thought this can be a bug.

yes? set memory/size=269
ferret_v6.82(33692) malloc: *** mmap(size=2152001536) failed (error code=12)
*** error: can't allocate region
*** set a breakpoint in malloc_error_break to debug
Unable to allocate 269.0 Mwords of memory.
Restoring previous memory of 268.0 Mwords.

I can't allocate 269 Mwords, which is about 1.00 GiB if one "word" is
4 bytes.  Because of this problem, I can't read a variable which is a
little over 1 GiB.  Ferret says "request exceeds memory setting: 292
Mwords were requested."

I thought 2 GiB is the actual maximum.  The error message contains
some hints that corroborate:

1) size=2152001536 is 2.00 GiB (if it's in bytes).

2) error code = 12 is "Cannot allocate memory" (from /usr/include/sys/errno.h).

>From this, I guess that at some point in the Ferret code, one "word"
is interpreted as 8 bytes.

Ferret v6.82 for Mac.

Best regards,

Ryo
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P.S.  I use this convention: "M" == 10^6, "Mi" = 2^20, "G" == 10^9,
"Gi" == 2^30.


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