[BioC] Wow, what have I done

[Loren Engrav]

Damn, you guys are big league

Am using 10.4.11 since do not have Leopard since do not have enough hard
drive space although I bought the disk and

As this point have no clue what "64 bit build" means and so use the provided
binaries


> From: "Marcus G. Daniels" <mdaniels at lanl.gov>
> Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2007 22:40:11 -0700
> To: "bioconductor at stat.math.ethz.ch" <bioconductor at stat.math.ethz.ch>
> Subject: Re: [BioC] Wow, what have I done
> 
> Loren Engrav wrote:
>> R(22621,0xa000ed88) malloc: *** error: can't allocate region
>> R(22621,0xa000ed88) malloc: *** set a breakpoint in szone_error to debug
>> R(22621,0xa000ed88) malloc: *** vm_allocate(size=758743040) failed (error
>> code=3)
>> R(22621,0xa000ed88) malloc: *** error: can't allocate region
>> R(22621,0xa000ed88) malloc: *** set a breakpoint in szone_error to debug
>> 
>> I have 2.5 gb DDR SDRAM in the dual G5 Mac
>> 
>> Is the only answer, buy more RAM?
>>   
> These sorts of errors tend not to occur with 64 bit software.  Provided
> you don't need to reference all of it, the fact it exceeds your actual
> amount of RAM isn't a cause for a crash or even slowness.   In short, a
> 64 bit build of R for Leopard might be a solution.
> 
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