With a custom compiled kernel, I've run R processes that used more than 5GB of RAM on a Linux box with 8GB RAM and dual Xeons. So it seems to work on 32-bit Linux with big memory kernel.
Andy > From: Duncan Murdoch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [snip] > Normally the maximum memory allowed for any process in > Windows is 2 GB. It's possible to raise that to 3 GB but R > 1.8 doesn't know how, so that's an absolute upper limit. > Version 1.9 may be able to go up to 3 GB, but beyond that > you'll probably need a 64 bit processor: as far as I know > all the 32 bit OS's limit each process to 2 or 3 GB, because > they reserve 1 or 2 GB for themselves. > [snip] > Duncan Murdoch > > ______________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo> /r-help > ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
