Alexandre Aguiar <asaguiar <at> spsconsultoria.com> writes: > I noticed the temperature of my laptop rises sharply during execution of a > long R script that generates several hundred plots, all of them saved to > files. No screen output. Temps reached above 90 Celsius degrees in the box > and above 80 C deg in the processor. The machine turns on cooler at maximum > speed and exhaled air is really hot. Tried similar operations (batch > graphic and music format conversion) and temp rises were usual.
Compare it with a "while(TRUE){}" loop in any not to agressively optimizing language of your choice. Heat simply shows that R is working hard. Dieter ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.