Hello. By way of background, I am running out of memory when attempting to normalize
the data from 160 affymetrix microarrays using justRMA (from the affy package). This
is despite making 6 gigabytes of swap space available on our sgi irix machine (which
has 2 gigabytes of ram). I have seen in various discussions statements such as "you
will need at least 6 gigabytes of memory to normalize that many chips", but my
question is this:
I cannot set the memory limits of R (1.9.1) higher than 4 gigabytes as attempting to
do so results in this message:
WARNING: --max-vsize=4098M=4098`M': too large and ignored
I experience this both on my windows box (on which I cannot allocate more than 4
gigabytes of swap space anyway), and on an the above mentioned sgi irix machine (on
which I can). In view of that, I do not see what good it does to make > 4 gigabytes
of ram+swap space available. Does this mean 4 gigabytes is the absolute upper limit
of R's memory usage...or perhaps 8 gigabytes since you can set both the stack and the
heap size to 4 gigabytes?
Thanks,
Eric
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