[Info-vax] problems allocating "large" arrays in OpenVMS-Fortran

[Joukj]

Richard B. Gilbert wrote:
 > "Virtual memory" is an  illusion!  You take some physical memory "X"
 > blocks and add two, to four times that amount of disk blocks.  Your
 > memory appears to be "real".  With the proper amount of "Real" memory
 > you can use a modest amount of disk space that **appears** to be memory.
 > Thats the "virtual" part.
 >
 > This sort of juggling has been used for situations where you don't
 > have enough RAM.
 >
 > These days it its not used as much as it was ten or twenty years ago.
 > Today, I can get four Gigabytes of RAM into my shirt pocket!!!  It makes
 > some things much easier.  I haven't checked prices recently but you
 > might get 4G of RAM for $20 or less, if not, wait another week or two.
 >
 >

Note that my machine contains 64GB RAM but already gets problems 
allocating more than 1GB.

               Jouk