My guess would be that it's a matter of having swap space be a dedicated partition or fixed-size file (Linux, usually) versus swapping to a regular file that grows as needed (Windows and OS X, usually.) So if you defragmented your drive and set Windows to have a fixedsize swap file, it would probably behave more like your Linux machine.
Peter On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 10:14 PM, Spencer Graves < spencer.gra...@prodsyse.com> wrote: > I computed "system.time(diag(30000))" with R 2.12.0 on Fedora 13 Linux > with 4 GB RAM and with R 2.14.1 on Windows 7 with 8 GB RAM: > > > Linux (4 GB RAM): 0, 0.21, 0.21 -- a fifth of a second > > > Windows 7 (8 GB RAM): 11.37 7.47 93.19 -- over 1.5 minutes. Moreover, > during most of that time, I could not switch windows or get any response > from the system. When I first encountered this, I thought Windows was hung > permanently and the only way out was a hard reset and reboot. > > > On both systems, diag(30000) generated, "Error: cannot allocate > vector of size ___ Gb", with "___" = 3.4 for Linux with 4 GB RAM and 6.7 > for Windows with 8 GB RAM. Linux with half the RAM and an older version of > R was done with this in 0.21 seconds. Windows 7 went into suspension for > over 93 seconds -- 1.5 minutes before giving an error message. > > > I don't know how easy this would be to fix under Windows, but I felt > a need to report it. > > > Best Wishes, > Spencer > > > -- > Spencer Graves, PE, PhD > President and Chief Technology Officer > Structure Inspection and Monitoring, Inc. > 751 Emerson Ct. > San José, CA 95126 > ph: 408-655-4567 > web: www.structuremonitoring.com > > ______________________________**________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/**listinfo/r-devel<https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel> > [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
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