[mira_talk] Re: MIRA3r4 and memory on Mac OS X

  • From: Bastien Chevreux <bach@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: mira_talk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:17:49 +0100

On Dienstag 24 November 2009 Peter wrote:
> I've been using MIRA 3rc4 under Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
> (compiled from source), and up until now this has been working
> fine on small viral genomes. I just tried a bacteria, and ran into a
> memory error:
>  [...]
> mira(1191) malloc: *** mmap(size=2097152) failed (error code=12)
> *** error: can't allocate region
> ...
> </log output>
> 
> From watching this in the activity monitor, I think this is failing at
> the 4GB memory boundary - and I noticed that the log says it was
> compiled in 32 bit mode. Is this likely to be the problem? Any tips
> for ensuring MIRA compiles in 64bit mode?

Hmmm, compiling under Apple always has some surprises it seems.

Make clean, then  use "-enable-64" as one of the switches to the configure 
script, then make all. Should do the trick.

Regards,
  Bastien

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