[R] Windows R 1.8.0 hangs when Mem Usage >1.8GB

[Dick Beyer]

Thanks to all those with helpful suggestions about my hitting the upper memory limit.  I do appreciate the help.

Thanks,
Dick
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On Wed, 19 Nov 2003, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:

> Could you compile up and try R-devel (see the FAQ)?  It probably will cope
> with more than 2Gb, and I've run it up to 2.5Gb.
> 
> Note that an effective limit of 1.7Gb is mentioned in the rw-FAW.
> 
> On Wed, 19 Nov 2003, Dick Beyer wrote:
> 
> > I have a loop that increases the size of an object after each iteration.  
> > When the Windows Task Manager shows "Mem Usage" about 1.8GB, the
> > Rgui.exe process no longer responds.
> > 
> > I use:
> > 
> > "C:\Program Files\R\rw1080\bin\Rgui.exe" --max-mem-size=4000M
> > --min-vsize=10M --max-vsize=3000M --min-nsize=500k --max-nsize=1000M
> > 
> > I have a dual Xeon 2.8GHz processor box with 4GB of memory and "R
> > version 1.8.0, 2003-10-08".
> > 
> > Any suggestions or ideas would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> 
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> Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
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