Travis Oliphant wrote:
Louis Wicker wrote:
Dear list:
I cannot seem to figure how to create arrays > 2 GB on a Mac Pro (using Intel chip and Tiger, 4.8). I have hand compiled both Python 2.5 and numpy 1.0.1, and cannot make arrays bigger than 2 GB. I also run out of space if I try and 3-6 several arrays of 1000 mb or so (the mem-alloc failure does not seem consistent, depends on whether I am creating them with a "numpy.ones()" call, or creating them on the fly by doing math with the other arrays "e.g., c = 4.3*a + 3.1*b").
Is this a numpy issue, or a Python 2.5 issue for the Mac? I have tried this on the SGI Altix, and this works fine.
It must be a malloc issue. NumPy uses the system malloc to construct arrays. It just reports errors back to you if it can't.
I don't think the Mac Pro uses a 64-bit chip, does it?
Intel Core 2 Duo's are 64-bit, but the OS and runtime libraries are not. None of the Python distributions for OS X are compiled for 64-bit support, either. When Leopard comes out, there will be better 64-bit support in the OS, and Python will follow. Until then, Python on OS X is 32-bit. -- Robert Kern "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth." -- Umberto Eco