[R] A WSL question with allocation

peter dalgaard pd@|gd @end|ng |rom gm@||@com
Tue Jul 21 23:54:46 CEST 2020


Does "ulimit -a" give a hint? (NB: no n in there...)

-pd

> On 21 Jul 2020, at 17:30 , Erin Hodgess <erinm.hodgess using gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hello!
> 
> Hope everyone is staying well.
> 
> I’m not sure if this is the right list for this question, but here goes.
> 
> I am using the new experimental WSL on my Windows laptop.  It was going
> well until yesterday.   I’m using Ubuntu 20.04.  I am starting to get “
> error: cannot allocate vector of size 1.3 gb”.  I have 32 gb of RAM.  I
> tried using “unlimit -v 1600000000”, not working.
> 
> Has anyone else had trouble with this, please? I’m thinking that it might
> be because of the newness of the WSL platform.
> 
> Thanks,
> Erin
> 
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