On Sat, 13 Nov 2004, Rob Steele wrote:

Does R do its own swapping out to disk? I disabled Linux swapping and the

No.

system still gets stuck in Purgatory where there's little CPU activity but the disk goes like crazy. That's with R having almost the whole machine to itself and running a memory hungry compute only function.

I've seen this behavior with other version numbers but I'm running R 2.0.0 under Fedora Core 3. The system is a laptop with 1 Gig. RAM.

I don't see it on machines with 1 or 2Gb of RAM and 3-10Gb of swap.

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