> From: David Winsemius [mailto:dwinsem...@comcast.net] > Sent: Friday, August 16, 2013 12:59 PM > Subject: Re: [R] Memory limit on Linux? [snip] > > In short, we don't have a solution yet to this explicit problem > > You may consider this to be an "explicit problem" but it doesn't read like > something > that is "explicit" to me. If you load an object that takes 10GB and then make > a > modification to it, there will be 2 or three versions of it in memory, at > least until > the garbage collector runs. Presumably your external *NIX methods of assessing > memory use will fail to understand this fact of R-life.
Hrm. Maybe "explicit" was the wrong word. Maybe "specific" would have been a better choice. Sorry. What I was trying to imply is that we can't replicate this exact same problem with anything else or in any other form but this users particular code/dataset. So the problem is very narrow in scope and related to the user code/dataset and therefore not to R in general. Where this odd behavior is coming from is still undetermined, I have at least narrowed the band of possibilities down significantly. Thanks! Chris Stackpole ______________________________________________ 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.
