[R] Question about R performance on UNIX/LINUX with different memory/swap configurations

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 16 September 2012 at 13:30, Eberle, Anthony wrote:
| Does anyone have any guidance on swap and memory configuration when
| running R v2.15.1 on UNIX/LINUX?  Through some benchmarking across
| multiple hardware (UNIX, LINUX, SPARC, x86, Windows, physical, virtual)
| it "seems" that the smaller memory machines have an advantage.

Would you be able to provide some "empirical proofs" for that conjecture?
Please demonstrate how, say, a X gb ram machine outperforms one with Y gb
where Y > X.

Less memory is /never/ better.  

Dirk

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