[R] Memory leakage?

[Tao Shi]

Dear Prof. Ripley:

Thank you for your suggestions!

I haven't tried re-installing windows yet, because it seems to be a big task 
for me and also I kind of doubt that the problem is due to my own 
computer(s), because the same problem happens to 3 different computers: one 
Dell desktop in school runing Win2K and R 1.6.1, my Dell laptop runing Win 
XP Professional Edition and R 1.7.0 and my new Dell desktop at home (just 
bought less than a month and only a few basic softwares were installed) 
runing Win XP Home Edition and R1.7.0.  (may be they're all from Dell :-)) 
I'm still looking for the pattern of when this happens, but so far, it seems 
to be random.

...Tao





Prof Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk> wrote:Date: Sat, 3 May 2003 
19:56:16 +0100 (BST)
From: Prof Brian Ripley
To: tshi at itsa.ucsf.edu
CC: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
Subject: Re: [R] Memory leakage?

I always use Rgui in SDI mode (under XP) and it always shuts down
completely for me.

There was only one release of R 1.6.2. This not what is meant by `memory
leakage': that is when an application allocates memory and does not free
it: it goes away when the application is exit-ed.

I believe the problem is with your own computer (or how you use it,
including other software you may have installed): have you tried
re-installing Windows?

On Sat, 3 May 2003, Tao Shi wrote:

 > I'm using R 1.7.0 on WinXP under SDI mode. However, very often after I
 > closed all R windows, my CPU usage was still 100%. By checking the task
 > manager, I found there are one or several "Rgui.exe" still running and 
took
 > all the CPU. I had to close them one by one manually. This happened to me
 > with R 1.6.1, R 1.6.2 also and also on Win2K. Rememeber there was a 
"memory
 > leakage" problem with the early release of 1.6.2. Is this what I'm
 > exprencing here? Or this is due to I'm runing R under SDI mode, b/c my
 > colleague hasn't found the problem with his R 1.7.0 or other versions 
which
 > are runing under MDI mode. Help............

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