[PyCUDA] device.make_context() memory usage

[Peter Schmidtke]

Dear PyCuda mailing list readers,

I just wondered why pycuda is eating lots of the cards memory after
execution of the make_context() command on the device. Just more precisely
on my GeForce 8800 GT I have a global memory of 512Mb and I can see that
after the make_context command 12Mb are used.

Is this also the case if one uses only the C API?

Thank you in advance.


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Peter Schmidtke

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PhD Student at the Molecular Modeling and Bioinformatics Group
Dep. Physical Chemistry
Faculty of Pharmacy
University of Barcelona