>From: Liaw, Andy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Did you compile R as 64-bit executable on the Irix? If not, R will be >subjected to the 4GB limit of 32-bit systems. >
No... >Search the archive for `Opteron' and you'll see that the limit is not 4GB, >for 64-bit executables. > >Andy Excellent. I will recompile and try again. Thanks, Eric >> From: Kort, Eric >> >> Hello. By way of background, I am running out of memory when >> attempting to normalize the data from 160 affymetrix >> microarrays using justRMA (from the affy package). This is >> despite making 6 gigabytes of swap space available on our sgi >> irix machine (which has 2 gigabytes of ram). I have seen in >> various discussions statements such as "you will need at >> least 6 gigabytes of memory to normalize that many chips", >> but my question is this: >> >> I cannot set the memory limits of R (1.9.1) higher than 4 >> gigabytes as attempting to do so results in this message: >> >> WARNING: --max-vsize=4098M=4098`M': too large and ignored >> >> I experience this both on my windows box (on which I cannot >> allocate more than 4 gigabytes of swap space anyway), and on >> an the above mentioned sgi irix machine (on which I can). In >> view of that, I do not see what good it does to make > 4 >> gigabytes of ram+swap space available. Does this mean 4 >> gigabytes is the absolute upper limit of R's memory >> usage...or perhaps 8 gigabytes since you can set both the >> stack and the heap size to 4 gigabytes? >> >> Thanks, >> Eric >> >> This email message, including any attachments, is for the so...{{dropped}} ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html