In case it helps with diagnosis: I don't replicate this behaviour on my system, running OSX 10.6.5 and R 2.11.1. I also updated to R 2.12.0 and still failed to replicate the reported behaviour.
On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 7:09 PM, steven mosher <mosherste...@gmail.com> wrote: > I recently started getting what I can best describe as a memory "race" > condition in my R > > ( OSX 10..5.8) > > It started a while back with R2.11, so I upgraded to 2.12 and have the same > issue > > System Updates have been installed. Then 2.12 was installed. Updates for > X11 installed. > > The phenomena appears like this. Starting R (64bit) from the R.app icon R > launches and consumes > roughly 50mb of memory. If I open a script and merely highlight text in that > window the memory consumption > runs up to 1.3Gb and the system grinds to a halt. I even lose window focus > temporarily. After a few minutes > the memory is released and I get cursor control back. Then it will race > again, > > Running R from the terminal R --vanilla did not exhibit these issues. > > Any ideas? > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > _______________________________________________ > R-SIG-Mac mailing list > R-SIG-Mac@stat.math.ethz.ch > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac > _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list R-SIG-Mac@stat.math.ethz.ch https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac