[R] R runtime performance and memory usage

Bert Gunter bgunter.4567 at gmail.com
Mon Nov 16 21:44:43 CET 2015


Do your own homework.
Google on "memory usage in R."  etc.
You should have no trouble finding what you need there.

Cheers,
Bert



Bert Gunter

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is certainly not wisdom."
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On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 12:25 PM, Sasikumar Kandhasamy
<ckmsasi at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I have couple of clarifications on R run-time performance. I have R-3.2.2
> package compiled for MIPS64 and am running it on my linux machine with
> mips64 processor (core speed 1.5GHz) and observing the following behaviors,
>
> 1. Applying "linear regression model" (lm) on 1MB of data (contains 1
> column of 250K records) takes ~6 seconds to complete. Anyidea, is it an
> expected behavior or not? If not, can you please the suggestions or options
> to improve if we have any?
>
> 2. Also, the R process runtime virtual memory is increased by 40MB after
> applying the linear model on 1MB data. Is it also expected behavior? If it
> is expected, can you please share the insight of memory usage?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Regards
> Sasi
>
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