Thanks for the clarification. What is strange though, is that I have several Fortran programs that create the exact same array srtucture... wouldn't they be restricted to the 2Gb limit as well?
Thoughts on a more efficient work around? Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch wrote: > > On Thu, 23 Oct 2008 11:11:32 -0700, John [H2O] wrote: > >> I'm trying to do the following: >> >> datagrid = numpy.zeros(360,180,3,73,20) >> >> But I get an error saying that the dimensions are too large? Is there a >> memory issue here? > > Let's see: > > You have: 360 * 180 * 3 * 73 * 20 * 8 bytes > You want: GiB > * 2.1146536 > / 0.47289069 > > Do you have a 32 bit system? Then 2 GiB is too much for a process. > > Ciao, > Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/More-efficient-array-processing-tp20136676p20137263.html Sent from the Python - python-list mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
