[R] How to increase memory for R on Soliars 10 with 16GB and 64bit R

[Uwe Ligges]

Uwe Ligges wrote:

> Dongseok Choi wrote:
> 
>> Thank you very much for your help!!
>> Now, it runs without any problem.
>>
>> Is it going to be fixed in the next release?
> 
> 
> Of course, Brian

[hmmm, looks like some wrong shortcut has been used - and it must have 
been me who forgot to drink coffee before strating to post ...]


I meant to say: Of course, Brian already did, see the svn log:

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r34947 | ripley | 2005-07-13 03:16:18 -0400 (Wed, 13 Jul 2005) | 1 line
Changed paths:
    M /trunk/NEWS
    M /trunk/src/main/memory.c

correct typo for R_alloc on 64-bit systems




Uwe Ligges




>> Thanks again,
>> Dongseok
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Dongseok Choi, Ph.D.
>> Assistant Professor
>> Division of Biostatistics
>> Department of Public Health & Preventive Medicine
>> Oregon Health & Science University
>> 3181 SW Sam Jackson Park Road, CB-669
>> Portland, OR 97239-3098
>> TEL) 503-494-5336
>> FAX) 503-494-4981
>> choid at ohsu.edu
>>
>>
>>>>> "Prof Brian Ripley" <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk> 07/13/05 12:03 AM >>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, 12 Jul 2005, Dongseok Choi wrote:
>>
>>
>>> My machine is SUN Java Workstation 2100 with 2 AMD Opteron CPUs and 
>>> 16GB RAM.
>>> R is compiled as 64bit by using SUN compilers.
>>> I trying to fit quantile smoothing on my data and I got an message as 
>>> below.
>>>
>>>
>>>> fit1<-rqss(z1~qss(cbind(x,y),lambda=la1),tau=t1)
>>>
>>>
>>> Error in as.matrix.csr(diag(n)) :
>>
>>
>> cannot allocate memory block of size 2496135168
>>
>>> The lengths of vector x and y are both 17664.
>>> I tried and found that the same command ran with x[1:16008] and 
>>> y[1:16008].
>>> So, it looks to me a memory related problem, but I'm not sure how I 
>>> can allocate memory block.
>>>  I read the command line option but not sure what do to with it.
>>>  Could you help me on this?
>>
>>
>>
>> It is trying to allocate a single memory block of size over 2^31-1 
>> bytes. R internally uses ints for sizes of vectors and that is a limit 
>> (see help("Memory-limits") ).  However, it is intended that on 64-bit 
>> systems that there is a limit here of 8*(2^31-1) but there was a 
>> typo.  Please change line 1534 of src/main/memory.c to
>>
>> #if SIZEOF_LONG > 4
>>
>> and re-compile.
>>
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