I am using FLAC3D 3.1 64-bit to model geotechnical problems. For my current model by default the software is allocating 110388 kBytes of memory. I am using a DELL desktop to run my FLAC3D program. I have 16 GB RAM and 1 TB hard drive, with intel core i5-4570 CPU. My processor speed is 3.20 GHz.
My question is, how can I allocate more memory to my FLAC3D program, so that I can quickly run my model?
You can change the amount of memory used by FLAC by modifying the shortcut to FLAC. In your computer, go the following shortcut
Start-->Programs-->Itasca-->FLAC-->FLAC3D 3.1
Right click and in the shortcut properties dialog, modify the amount of memory (in MB) to the end of the target string (see the bold number 64 in the following example).
"C:\Program Files\Itasca\FLAC3D\exe32\Flac3D.exe" 64 giic
If the amount of memory requested is more than that available, FLAC will still load, but with the maximum available memory. The amount of memory allocated for FLAC is printed in the start-up (text-mode) screen.
This works for FLAC 2D. Hopefully it works for 3D too!
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