[R] 1024GB max memory on R for Windows XP?

[Roger D. Peng]

Was this by any chance a Linux on x86?  If so, I think there's roughly a 
2.5-3GB limit for a single process imposed by the architecture.

-roger

Jonathan Greenberg wrote:
> Hmm, I went over to a unix box that should have had plenty of RAM and swap
> space and running the same prune.tree process ended up causing R to be
> "Killed" (e.g. It quit out).  Thoughts?
> 
> --j
> 
> On 2/19/04 4:58 PM, "Duncan Murdoch" <dmurdoch at pair.com> wrote:
> 
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>>On Thu, 19 Feb 2004 15:14:36 -0800, Jonathan Greenberg wrote:
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>>>I have 2GB installed on my windows XP box running R 1.9.0, and after
>>>performing a prune.tree(intree,newdata), I get an out of memory error within
>>>R, but it says the maximum allowed is 1024gb (1/2 of what I have!)  Can R
>>>not use more than 1GB on an XP box?  I noticed I had ~600mb left over after
>>>R conked out, so clearly I had more memory...  What about virtual memory?
>>
>>See the FAQ.  You can increase the limit, but not past 2GB (no matter
>>how much RAM or virtual memory you've got), and maybe not all the way
>>there.
>>
>>Duncan Murdoch
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