On 6 February 2012 at 12:45, Jeroen Ooms wrote: | After upgrading my servers to 2.14, log files were filled warnings | that 'mem.limits' has been deprecated and to use gc instead. After | reading the NEWS for R 2.14.0 and PR#14795 I learned that it is | actually deprecated without replacement. | | Hereby I just want to voice that this function was actually in use by | at least several users. Among other things, it is a useful to limit | per-session memory on a shared resource. I am not sure what the | assumption that 'these limits are nowadays almost never used' was | based on, but I would disagree.
Your operating system is better at these thing. 'man bash' and search for ulimit. Dirk | Obviously this is message is late, the decision has been made and we | were not paying attention when we should have. However if there is | possibly anything that can be done to rescue some of this | functionality that would be greatly appreciated. E.g. by keeping some | of the support in the memory allocator and moving the R code into a | package or so. | | Thank you | | ______________________________________________ | R-devel@r-project.org mailing list | https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel -- "Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it is too dark to read." -- Groucho Marx ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
