Casper H.S. Dik <Casper.Dik@Sun.COM> wrote in message news:<40f15867$0$93324$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl>...
> 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


Apart from some small daemons there is nothing else running. The
application does no I/O except at the start and finish. All during the
run TOP shows a working set size of "8GB" and "13.9GB" for "memory
allocated". From my knowledge of the program I would have expected the
working set to be about 13.8GB. This led me to suspect there was a
switch somewhere that regulated the maximum working set size.