[R] Memory management
Konstantinos Euripides Vorloou
K.E.Vorloou at durham.ac.uk
Tue Apr 27 15:14:38 CEST 1999
Dear all,
I don't get it:
First of all, the help doesn't say what are the memory limits of
R. Say, what's the max heap size for instance ????
Secondly, I invoke R with the following commands each time:
rgui --vsize 30M --nsize 1000K
rgui --vsize 30M --nsize 2000K
rgui --vsize 30M --nsize 3000K
rgui --vsize 30M --nsize 4000K
I try to open a matrix 8000x8000 by issuing
x<-matrix(nrow=8000,ncol=8000)
I always get the following message:
Error: heap memory (20480 Kb) exhausted [needed 250000 Kb more]
It's always 250000 Kb less. Although gc() reports the memory management
as
expected (correctly ?), increased every time I invoke R with greater
vsize,nsize
params. My matrix should hold roughly 1 Meg of memory.
Is this correct ?
When I issue :
rgui --vsize 30M --nsize 5000K
R hangs up and have to kill the session.
I am using R on a 333 Celeron Pentium PC with 128Megs of memory
under windows 98. I don't think I should have a problem there. Hardware
seems ok...
Would the interpreter normally use the swap disk to
create a ramdrive for extra memory needs ? When I use
large vsize, nsize params there is an awful lot of disk swapping...
This is more obvious on slower pentiums.
I'd hate to recompile R to enlarge the heap. Is there another
way out of it ? Anything undocumented ?
Thanks for your time and attention.
Best regards,
Costas
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