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 -- Dirk Eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org | http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
