Good morning: I have posted recently about memory crashes that I was encountering running R:Base 6.5++ on a Windows 2000 system. In the hopes that this may help others I am happy to report that (at least tentatively) I have found out what the problem was.
It appears that the way my system was configured and the amount of disk space I had available was causing the Windows swap file to run out of space. Coupled with this was that when I reloaded my database I ran low on disk space. Put these two together and I was crashing about every day during my morning program run. I have moved the swap file to my D: drive which has more space and also archived several hundred megabytes of database. Since I have done this I have not had a problem all week. This may explain why I was having similar problems when running Microsoft Excel. It would have occasional memory crashes when working with large files. Incidentally, I also configured the Windows Task Manager to keep track of page faults. Having a high number of page faults can indicate that you do not have enough RAM installed on your system. A page fault happens when the requested data/memory is not in RAM and has to be retrieved from the disk or swap file. In my particular case, my system had nearly 700,000 page faults in the spooler program alone during a 12 hour period. I am having the RAM on my system boosted from 256 MB to 768 MB as soon as possible. My new system, which I'm supposed to get in a week or two is coming configured with 1GB of RAM and a 2.0 gHz Pentium IV. Woo Hoo!!! Hope this helps someone out there. Thanks Mike Ramsour Voice: 1-740-829-4340 ================================================ TO SEE MESSAGE POSTING GUIDELINES: Send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the message body, put just two words: INTRO rbase-l ================================================ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the message body, put just two words: UNSUBSCRIBE rbase-l ================================================ TO SEARCH ARCHIVES: http://www.mail-archive.com/rbase-l%40sonetmail.com/
