[Numpy-discussion] numarray problem creating large memmap

[Todd Miller]

On Fri, 2005-07-01 at 07:39, Joost van Evert wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> does anyone know why it is not possible to create a memmap beyond a
> certain length. For example: m =
> MM.open('/tmp/test','write',len=500000000) works, while the same command
> using a length of 600000000 gives the following error message:
> 
> /shannon/joost/lib/python/numarray/memmap.py in __init__(self, filename,
> mode, len)
>     299             else:
>     300                 acc = mmap.ACCESS_WRITE
> --> 301             self._mmap = mmap.mmap(file.fileno(), len,
> access=acc)
>     302         else:
>     303             self._mmap = None
> 
> EnvironmentError: [Errno 22] Invalid argument
> 
> I am using:
> - numarray version 1.3.1
> - python 2.4.1
> - linux

I'm not sure it matters,  but how much RAM and swap do you have?  How
much free space do you have on /tmp? 

Regards,
Todd