Hi , I apologize to send again the message but I realized that i didn't put the subject and so people could not reply correctly
>Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 10:29:09 -0500 >To: [email protected] >From: saverio vicario <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: >Cc: >Bcc: >X-Attachments: > >Dear help desk and R community, >I have a problem on how R2.0 handle the RAM, maybe a bug >In fact I used R1.9 since january 2004 with large data set using a >macosx G5 with 1G of ram without problem . Then I passed to 2.0 and >I found myself short in ram using virtual memory. I tried to use >the program from terminal windows to avoid the GUI but it was the >same. The annoying part is that even if I cancel big object from >the workspace the RAM consumption do not decrease (looking at the >percentage of usage in ps or the actual value in "activity >monitor"). Only after a long time (1/2 hour ) the consumption of RAM >decreased somewhat. When I use the workspace browser on the GUI and >I use "refresh" the consumption of RAM fluctuate each time both >decreasing and incresing even if the workspace do not change. For >example I can pass from using 270mb of memory to 430mb (or the >contrary) simply pushing several time refresh. The value is stable >once I do not push refresh anymore >thanks >saverio [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
