It helps to have a sense of humor: SET WORKSPACE.

[David Marso]

Recently acquired a new Laptop running Win8-64 (er 8.1 after the service pak )
and decided to test some limits.  I guess the following rather comical (IMO) scenario never occurred to somebody or anybody for that matter.  I figured it would actually tell me something about the ceiling on my 8G system.
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SET WORKSPACE=10000000000000000.
 
>Warning # 882 in column 15.  Text: 10000000000000000
>The parameter of the WORKSPACE subcommand is in terms of kilobytes (KB).  It
>must be at least 6144 and not greater than 2097151.

SET WORKSPACE=1000000000000000.
SHOW WORKSPACE.

System Settings
        Keyword
        WORKSPACE
Description Special workspace memory limit in kilobytes
Setting 1000000000000000

Then I tried to allocate a MATRIX something like 1000000 x 10000? and as soon as I hit run the entire system froze.  Looking at the carnage later in the journal it wasn't able to allocate the memory, but I am not likely to try that again until I have a bit of time on my hands.

Ctl+Alt+Delete? Nothing
Ctl . ? Ditto
Power button? well yeah....

[Albert-Jan Roskam]

Interesting. Small improvement (assuming you don't like colleagues who are also pirates):

BEGIN PROGRAM.
import getpass, spss
pirates = ["Chivas Regal", "Vincenzo Alessandri", "Sir James Lancaster"]
if getpass.getuser() in pirates:
    spss.Submit("SET WORKSPACE=10000000000000000.")
END PROGRAM.


Regards,
Albert-Jan

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----- Original Message -----

> From: David Marso <[hidden email]>
> To: [hidden email]
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> Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2013 3:39 PM
> Subject: [SPSSX-L] It helps to have a sense of humor: SET WORKSPACE.
>
> Recently acquired a new Laptop running Win8-64 (er 8.1 after the service pak
> )
> and decided to test some limits.  I guess the following rather comical (IMO)
> scenario never occurred to somebody or anybody for that matter.  I figured
> it would actually tell me something about the ceiling on my 8G system.
> ---------------------------------------------------------
>
> SET WORKSPACE=10000000000000000.
>
>> Warning # 882 in column 15.  Text: 10000000000000000
>> The parameter of the WORKSPACE subcommand is in terms of kilobytes (KB).
> It
>> must be at least 6144 and *not greater than 2097151*.
>
> SET WORKSPACE=1000000000000000.
> SHOW WORKSPACE.
>
> System Settings
>         Keyword
>         WORKSPACE
> Description     Special workspace memory limit in kilobytes
> Setting 1000000000000000
>
> Then I tried to allocate a MATRIX something like 1000000 x 10000? and as
> soon as I hit run the entire system froze.  Looking at the carnage later in
> the journal it wasn't able to allocate the memory, but I am not likely to
> try that again until I have a bit of time on my hands.
>
> Ctl+Alt+Delete? Nothing
> Ctl . ? Ditto
> Power button? well yeah....
>
>
>
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