Memory problems at DEC alpha

[Peter Knowles]

This is almost certainly a system problem. Can you run a simple
program that dynamically allocates this amount of memory using malloc
or similar?
Dr. Pablo Wessig wrote at 14:26 on 4 May 2001:
 > Dear MOLPRO users,
 > we have a serious problem using MOLPRO at DEC alpha machines (OSF 4.0). It
 > is impossible to use more then 10 MW = 80 MB memory, no matter, how much
 > memory is installed. Jobs with memory requests > 10MW always die with the
 > message "Failure in attempting memory allocation of..."
 > Does anybody know the reason for this malfunction?
 > Thanks for any help.
 > P. Wessig
 > 
 > 
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