[R] Memory Leak in R v1.6.1

[Liaw, Andy]

For the benefit of those who might have similar problem...

-----Original Message-----
From: Annette Molinaro [mailto:molinaro at cc.ucsf.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 11:51 PM
To: Liaw, Andy
Subject: Re: [R] Memory Leak in R v1.6.1


Thanks Andy!
It worked!

----- Original Message -----
From: "Liaw, Andy" <andy_liaw at merck.com>
To: "'Annette Molinaro'" <molinaro at cc.ucsf.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 2:52 PM
Subject: RE: [R] Memory Leak in R v1.6.1


> Try following the rm() by a few gc()'s and see if that helps.
>
> Andy
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Annette Molinaro [mailto:molinaro at cc.ucsf.edu]
> > Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 4:30 PM
> > To: R-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
> > Subject: [R] Memory Leak in R v1.6.1
> >
> >
> > Greetings,
> >
> > I am running R v 1.6.1 on a linux operating system with 2GB
> > physical memory and dual processors. When using BATCH to run
> > a simulation with a super large dataset I can only get
> > through 1 1/2 repetitions before R uses all the memory and
> > the simulation crashes. It starts with 10% of the memory - up
> > to 50% by the end of the first repetition and then starts the
> > second with approx 65% of the memory. I am using rm at the
> > end of each section and thus only keeping a small matrix of
> > results. Any suggestions?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Annette
> >
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