possible memory leak in 1.6 (PR#2160)

[Peter Dalgaard BSA]

socher@stat.uni-muenchen.de writes:

> Full_Name: Anne-Laure Boulesteix
> Version: 1.6.0
> OS: Linux
> Submission from: (NULL) (141.84.161.156)
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I noticed the following problem with 1.6.0 (which was not present in 1.5.1): 
> 
> I work with very large datasets and encountered a problem with memory
> allocation,
> (probably a memory leak).  I wrote a programm with a loop.  In this loop in
> each
> iteration I create a  very large matrix and assign it to a variable which
> is the SAME for all the iterations.  So at each round the new matrix overwrites
> the old  matrix.  In 1.5.1  the garbage collector seems to clean up the old
> unused memory.  Unfortunately, in 1.6.0 with each round the memory used by R
> increases until the R process is killed. 
> 
> Is there any way around this?

Example code that would allow someone to reproduce and hunt down the
problem would help. This could be the same issue that Achim Zeileis
reported a few days ago. In that case the current source snapshots may
have it fixed.

Please be specific when you report problems. A broad outline of your
program is not sufficient to let us guess where the problem lies.
We could write a minimal loop which fits your description, but so
could you, and you're much closer to telling whether it is actually
displaying the same problem.

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