Re: [Rd] R Configuration Variable: Maximum Memory Allocation per R Instance

2017-09-17 Thread Jeroen Ooms
On Sun, Sep 17, 2017 at 12:39 AM, Juan Telleria wrote: > Dear R Developers, > > In the same way that MySQL/MariaDB's Engine InnoDB or MyISAM/Aria have the > innodb_buffer_pool_size or the key_buffer_size for setting the maximum > amount of RAM which can be used by a Server

Re: [Rd] R Configuration Variable: Maximum Memory Allocation per R Instance

2017-09-17 Thread Juan Telleria
This variables already exist as I have been said, and are: * memory.size * memory.limit R Documentation: https://stat.ethz.ch/R-manual/R-devel/library/utils/html/memory.size.html Thank you, Juan El 17/9/2017 12:39 a. m., "Juan Telleria" escribió: > Dear R Developers, >

Re: [Rd] R Configuration Variable: Maximum Memory Allocation per R Instance

2017-09-17 Thread Mark van der Loo
Dear Juan, I'm not deeply familiar with the DB's you mention but it seems to me that me that 'memory.limits' does what you want on one OS and you can use shell commands to limit R's memory usage for *nix-alike systems (see ?memory.limits). Also, Jeroen Ooms wrote a nice article about this in the

[Rd] R Configuration Variable: Maximum Memory Allocation per R Instance

2017-09-16 Thread Juan Telleria
Dear R Developers, In the same way that MySQL/MariaDB's Engine InnoDB or MyISAM/Aria have the innodb_buffer_pool_size or the key_buffer_size for setting the maximum amount of RAM which can be used by a Server Instance: ¿Would it be possible to create an R Configuration Variable which fixes the