drfremove@nber.org (Daniel Feenberg) writes:

>We have a Sun Blade 2000 with 16GB of memory running Solaris as
>supplied by Sun. It seems to limit the working set size (reported by
>top) to 8GB for a single process, although it will allocate up to
>13.9GB to that process. Is this a limitation of the HW/OS or is there
>a tunable configuration parameter we can change to allow a larger
>wroking set? We really need a large working set - it is ok if only one
>large job executes. The application is a statistical package called
>Stata.

You need to establish what other bits of the system using memory;
or do you still have a lot of free memory?

Are you doing a lot of I/O?

Casper
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