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- Organization: Institut fuer Medizinische Computerwissenschaften
- Message-ID: <920723.151459.CDT.REICHETZ@AWIIMC12.IMC.UniVie.AC.AT>
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.rexx
- Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 15:14:59 CDT
- Sender: REXX Programming discussion list <REXXLIST@UGA.BITNET>
- From: Christian.J.Reichetzeder@AWIIMC12.IMC.UNIVIE.AC.AT
- Subject: Re: REXX string handling question
- In-Reply-To: Message of Wed, 22 Jul 92 09:55:35 GMT from <rh@RTGX.HANSE.DE>
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- On Wed, 22 Jul 92 09:55:35 GMT Ruediger Hoppe said:
- >My REXX program started to load the files (together about 65000
- >lines, 3,5MB). After a while the swapfile (size onscreen displayed)
- >started to grow (with 10 MB Ram?), the disk was really busy.
-
- Well, that's at least 65000 variables in the array. Dunno about OS's REXX but
- let's estimate the control block as 40 bytes/variable. This gives an extra 2.5
- MB. So loading the files requires 6MB minimum - for the variables only.
- Depending on what your program does besides the loading you may actually break
- through the ceiling :-)
-
- Christian
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