Why does Matlab need so much memory to read in a .csv file?
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I have a 370mb .csv file that I want to read in to Matlab. I cannot do it, because the program sequesters all of my available memory (approximately 5gb) and is still not done with the import. This is as large file, but it is not that big. Is this normal?
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Matt J
2013-9-22
Just a guess, but if your file is full of numeric data, each data value can become about 8 times as large when converted from text to doubles. Seeing your actual code would provide more clues, though, as I commented above.
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Matt J
2013-9-23
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2013-9-23
If your file is 370MB and contains 20 million elements, it means that each element consumes about 18 bytes on average. That sounds a bit weird to me. Are these 18 digit numbers?
Anyway, you could try xlsread, dlmread, or textscan to see if you can read 1 column at a time and see if it makes a difference.
Image Analyst
2013-9-23
18 bytes per number is fine. Each number could be 18 characters if it had, say for example, 3 numbers, a decimal place, 12 digits of mantissa, a comma, and a trailing space, like this "123.123456789012, " That's 18 ASCII characters and if there were about 20 million ASCII sequences like that in the CSV text file, you'd get 370 MB.
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