On 30 Mar 2004, at 22:59, Dan Bolser wrote: > Allocated 3083945984 bytes > That's 2941.08 MB. > >> From my xeon (Mem:4124724k av, Swap:2040244k av) > > Hmmmm..... > > What does it mean? You're getting as much memory as we'd expect. The kernel reserves 1 GB of the per-process address space for its own purposes, on X86 machines, so your program is left with 3GB. Ish. Tim -- Dr Tim Cutts Informatics Systems Group Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute Hinxton, Cambridge, CB10 1SA, UK