From: Martin Maechler (maechler@stat.math.ethz.ch)
Date: Wed 25 Jul 2001 - 20:26:02 EST
Message-id: <15198.40634.95166.274940@gargle.gargle.HOWL>
>>>>> "Agustin" == Agustin Lobo <alobo@ija.csic.es> writes:
Agustin> On Tue, 24 Jul 2001, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
BDR> The main problem I see is that your machine seems unable to
BDR> allocate more than about 450Mb to R, and it has surprisingly
BDR> little swap space. (This 512Mb Linux machine has 1Gb of swap
BDR> allocated, and happily allocates 800Mb to R when needed.)
Agustin> Well, this rises an interesting point for me: are there
Agustin> advices on how to configure a particular system for best R
Agustin> performance with large datasets? I've looked into the R system
Agustin> guide and could not find anything (that document is a bit
Agustin> obscure for me, must recognize).
which document? There's no ``R system guide''
Agustin> Do you get the 800 Mb by starting R with a particular option?
no; Brian said ``when needed'' which means that R allocates memory (almost
always) when it needs it.
Agustin> (BTW, I do not remember how much swap I defined for my linux
Agustin> system, how could I check that?. Excuses for the not-R question)
cat /proc/meminfo
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