[R] can we manage memory usage to increase speed?

[Haibo Huang]

Please refer to the following post.

Ed

--- Mike Lawrence <Mike.Lawrence at dal.ca> wrote:

> Date: Mon,  1 Aug 2005 00:19:06 -0300
> From: Mike Lawrence <Mike.Lawrence at dal.ca>
> To: "Briggs, Meredith M"
> <Meredith.Briggs at team.telstra.com>
> CC: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: Re: [R] How do you increase memeory?
> 
> memory.limit(size = x)
> 
> where x is the desired memory limit in MB.
> 
> 
> 
> Quoting "Briggs, Meredith M"
> <Meredith.Briggs at team.telstra.com>:
> 
> > Hello
> >
> >
> > Function memory.size() =435109888. How do I
> increase it by, say 30%?
> >
> > Thanks
> > Meredith
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--- Zhilin Liu <zhilinliu_email at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>  
> Thanks for reading.
>  
> I am running  a process in R for microarray data
> analysis. RedHat Enterprise Linux 4, dual AMD CPU,
> 6G memory. However, the R process use only a total
> of <200M memory. And the CPU usage is total to ~110%
> for two. The program takes at least 2 weeks to run
> at the current speed. Is there some way we can
> increase the usage of CPUs and memories and speed
> up? Any suggestion is appreciated.
>  
> Thanks again.
>  
> Zhilin 
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