Re: intel-mac binary 32 or 64 bit?

Doesn't seem to be any limit to memory. Also "top" indicates I have
3.3GB available.

> cputime unlimited
> filesize unlimited
> datasize 6144 kbytes
> stacksize 8192 kbytes
> coredumpsize 0 kbytes
> memoryuse unlimited
> descriptors 256
> memorylocked unlimited
> maxproc 266

-Jamie
On Oct 2, 2009, at 3:32 PM, Wei Huang wrote:

> Jamie,
>
> Your Mac has 8G memory, does not mean your NCL can use all of them.
> You may have other program running, such as your dock, web browser,
> finder, etc.
> For example, I have firefox running, which takes about 150M.
>
> Also, there may be per process limit on your mac, and you may
> use "limit" command to see if there is a limit on each process.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Wei Huang
> huangwei_at_ucar.edu
> VETS/CISL
> National Center for Atmospheric Research
> P.O. Box 3000 (1850 Table Mesa Dr.)
> Boulder, CO 80307-3000 USA
> (303) 497-8924
>
>
>
>
>
> On Oct 2, 2009, at 3:10 PM, Jamie Scott wrote:
>
>> I'm running the latest ncl binary for the intel-mac (downloaded
>> ncl_ncarg-5.1.1.MacOS_i386_9.7.0.tar from ESG),
>> and I'm unable to allocate more than 3.5GB before getting a malloc
>> error. I was allocating 200mb variables to see where
>> the limit was.
>>
>>> ncl(46785) malloc: *** mmap(size=200003584) failed (error code=12)
>>> *** error: can't allocate region
>>> *** set a breakpoint in malloc_error_break to debug
>>> fatal:NclMalloc Failed:[errno=12]
>>> fatal:New: could not create new array:[errno=12]
>>> br>
>>
>> So it appears this binary is 32-bit instead of 64. Is this the
>> case or is there something else wrong? If so, is it possible to
>> make a 64-bit binary?
>>
>> I'm using mac OS X 10.58 on and intel-mac with 8GB memory.
>> Darwin Kernel Version 9.8.0: Wed Jul 15 16:55:01 PDT 2009;
>> root:xnu-1228.15.4~1/RELEASE_I386 i386 i386
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Jamie Scott
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