[SciPy-User] Problem with handling big matrices with Windows

[Sturla Molden]

Matthieu Brucher <matthieu.brucher at gmail.com> wrote:
 
> Your arrays have more than 800 millions entries, so even with floats
> or int32, that means more than 3GB, meaning only one would fit in the
> process memory.

32 bits applications on Windows only allow 2 GB of memory allocated from
user space. The virtual memory space i 4 GB, but the kernel has reserved
the upper half. 


Sturla