"Out of memory error", but there's enought memory

Hi All!

16G memory. win7 64 + Matlab 2011a 64.

>>tst=zeros(100000);

??? Out of memory. Type HELP MEMORY for your options.

>>memory

Maximum possible array: 29309 MB (3.073e+010 bytes) *

Memory available for all arrays: 29309 MB (3.073e+010 bytes) *

Memory used by MATLAB: 468 MB (4.910e+008 bytes)

Physical Memory (RAM): 16292 MB (1.708e+010 bytes)

• Limited by System Memory (physical + swap file) available.

[Oleg Komarov]

Not a bug but a common mistake that even with years of experience sometimes you cannot avoid.

Answer 1

[Oleg Komarov]

Are you sure (troll):

(100 000^2) * 8 bytes = 74.505806 gigabytes

You're creating a matrix not a vector.

Use:

zeros(1e5,1)

Answer 2

[Andrey Babkin]

Thanks a lot. I was in panic :)

Как говорится, дело было не в бобине....