[R] Memory/data -last time I promise

[Martin Maechler]

>>>>> "Agustin" == Agustin Lobo <alobo at ija.csic.es> writes:

    Agustin> On Tue, 24 Jul 2001, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:

    BDR> The main problem I see is that your machine seems unable to
    BDR> allocate more than about 450Mb to R, and it has surprisingly
    BDR> little swap space.  (This 512Mb Linux machine has 1Gb of swap
    BDR> allocated, and happily allocates 800Mb to R when needed.)


    Agustin> Well, this rises an interesting point for me: are there
    Agustin> advices on how to configure a particular system for best R
    Agustin> performance with large datasets? I've looked into the R system
    Agustin> guide and could not find anything (that document is a bit
    Agustin> obscure for me, must recognize).

which document?  There's no  ``R system guide''

    Agustin> Do you get the 800 Mb by starting R with a particular option?

no; Brian said ``when needed'' which means that R allocates memory (almost
always) when it needs it.


    Agustin> (BTW, I do not remember how much swap I defined for my linux
    Agustin> system, how could I check that?. Excuses for the not-R question)
 
cat /proc/meminfo

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