Hi,

igraph uses 32 bytes per edge and 16 bytes per vertex to store a network.
The network is copied from the C address space to R's address space (btw.
are you using R at all?), so multiply by two.

You might need more when reading it in, depending on the file format.

Gabor


On Mon, Oct 7, 2013 at 6:49 PM, Swati Sinha <[email protected]> wrote:

> I have a network links file with 673123356 connections. Can igraph handle
> it?
> I have tried to read this through read.graph, but every-time it crashes. I
> have 8GB RAM and i3 quad core processor.
> What is the max memory or configuration needed to read this one and
> perform further calculations like looking at the degree distribution and
> other topological analysis?
>
> Swati
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