64-bit Linux Binary Compatibility (for Matlab)

[Maxim Khitrov]

On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 10:52 AM, Sean Cavanaugh
<millenia2000 at hotmail.com> wrote:
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>> Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2008 09:47:45 -0400
>> From: mkhitrov at gmail.com
>> To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
>> Subject: 64-bit Linux Binary Compatibility (for Matlab)
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>> Apparently Matlab tries to allocate a continuous chunk of memory, and
>> we needed to upgrade to 64-bit hardware to give it access to more than
>> 1GB of memory, which is about the most that it was able to get before.
>> It's a lousy explanation, but I wasn't employed at this place when
>> this diagnosis was made.
>>
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> running 32-bit gives you access to 4GB of RAM, not 1. there is some address
> space that is used up by hardware such as video cards that will reduce that
> number reported by the OS.
>

I know that, the key word there is continuous space. In either case,
I'm only repeating what was said to me as the reason for purchasing a
brand new server - run in 64-bit mode to give Matlab more virtual
memory. It may end up being the case that the problem was completely
unrelated. I'll know in about an hour :)

- Max