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    Hi Mollie,<br>
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    Another thought, can you let me know what OS you are using and how
    much memory you have installed?   If your gradfil1.tmp file is 32Gb,
    you will need to have a lot of memory available to the OS, which
    means you need a lot installed and a 64-bit OS.<br>
    <br>
    The temporary files are written to in memory intensive models when
    memory isn't available, so it is actually a feature of ADMB.
    Otherwise, you simply would not be able to run the model at all.<br>
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    Thanks,<br>
    Allan<br>
    <br>
    On 2/1/2011 4:56 PM, Mollie Brooks wrote:
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                <div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span
                      class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">Hi,</span></font></div>
                <div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span
                      class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">I'm
                      continually having problems with memory
                      allocation. I don't understand the purpose of this
                      error</span></font></div>
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                  <div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span
                        class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:
                        14px;"> It appears that the size you are setting
                        for the</span></font></div>
                  <div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span
                        class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:
                        14px;"> GRADSTACK_BUFFER is > 64K in a 16 bit
                        word machine.This appears</span></font></div>
                  <div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span
                        class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:
                        14px;"> to be an error. The maximum size
                        argument for the function</span></font></div>
                  <div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span
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                        gradient_structure::set_GRADSTACK_BUFFER_SIZE(long
                        int i) ---</span></font></div>
                  <div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span
                        class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:
                        14px;">should probably be  89478485</span></font></div>
                  <div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span
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                        14px;">UINT_MAX = 4294967295</span></font></div>
                  <div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span
                        class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:
                        14px;"> i = 10000000000</span></font></div>
                  <div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span
                        class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:
                        14px;"> gs_size = 48</span></font></div>
                  <div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span
                        class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:
                        14px;"> i*gs_size = 480000000000</span></font></div>
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                <div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span
                      class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">I
                      really do need a buffer larger than this
                      (otherwise I get a gradfil1.tmp >32GB). When I
                      ask for a larger buffer in the command line
                      (-gbs), it behaves erratically: sometimes it is
                      enough and sometimes I get the gradfil1.tmp. It's
                      very frustrating. The only difference between the
                      different runs is the node on the cluster that the
                      job goes to. Could that be causing the program to
                      use different amounts of memory. </span></font></div>
                <div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span
                      class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">thanks,</span></font></div>
                <div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span
                      class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">Mollie</span></font></div>
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