Matlab error "Out of memory. Type HELP MEMORY for your options"

Question

I'm trying to run a simple example code in matlab 2013b for implementing PCA. I have a matrix 2x88000, double, and I run a just single function with this matrix as an argument, and getting error that I'm out of memory with 70% of memory free!

I have installed 16 GB of RAM.

memory function gave:

Maximum possible array:     25778 MB (2.703e+10 bytes) *
Memory available for all arrays:     25778 MB (2.703e+10 bytes) *
Memory used by MATLAB:      1284 MB (1.346e+09 bytes)
Physical Memory (RAM):     16375 MB (1.717e+10 bytes)

Additional information:

I have installed 3 version of matlab: 2011a, 2012b, 2013b.

Windows 7 x64

I did run profilier:

princomp: 0.046 s0.003 s5508.00 Kb 5508.00 Kb 0.00 Kb 1380.00 Kb

it used only 5,5 Mb

Type in this on the Command Window - profile -memory on and then start the Profiler, See the memory usage by your codes there. — Divakar
possible duplicate of MATLAB is running out of memory but it should not be — NKN

Il'ya Zhenin Il'ya Zhenin · Accepted Answer · 2014-03-28T09:21:20

Found localization of problem in question MATLAB is running out of memory but it should not be

Finally for my problem Matlab supposed to allocate ~ 59 GB of memory which is not possible

Matlab error "Out of memory. Type HELP MEMORY for your options"

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