anyone can explain this error message

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What does this message mean?
??? Error using ==> vertcat
Out of memory. Type HELP MEMORY for your options.

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Image Analyst
Image Analyst on 7 Jun 2013
It means you don't have enough memory to do the operation and create the new variable. Did you type HELP MEMORY?

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Iain
Iain on 7 Jun 2013
That error means that you have attempted to create a single variable that cannot fit contiguously into your system's memory.

Brwa
Brwa on 7 Jun 2013
Thank you guys
yes, i typed but i couldnt understand it cleary, but Im clear with it now.
my problem is, I have a for loop which is extremely big 200,000,000 iteration and my RAM is 4G
is there any solution?
Image Analyst, I hope this time you think my for loop is big, hehe
Best regards
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Iain
Iain on 7 Jun 2013
Do fewer iterations?
Write whatever you're logging to file? (Do this in chunks of a few 10MB at a time, rather than per-loop)
Image Analyst
Image Analyst on 7 Jun 2013
It's not the fact that you're doing 200 million iterations, it's what you're doing inside it. And if you're concatenating something (who knows because you didn't provide code), then there is a possibility that that variable gets too big.

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