[R] Issue with mcapply

[Rainer M Krug]

Again: please keep this on r-help!

AROONALOK PYNE <aroonalok.pyne at gmail.com> writes:

> Hi,
>
> My system has 4GB memory. On running htop command on linux terminal,  for
> c(9999999), a() runnnng on single cpu core showed stats for 100% cpu
> utilization. On reaching b(), the entire system hanged (no response and the
> cpu utilization froze at 100%, RAM utilization never crossed 1.5 GB)

Please read up on memory allocation in R. top (and htop) are not
appropriate to see if R has memory or not as vectors need to be
allocated in consecutive blocks.

There have been several questions about this on this list.

Cheers,

Rainer

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