> John Maindonald john.maindonald at anu.edu.au wrote > Sat Mar 11 01:53:31 CET 2006 > > I've found memory management sometimes problematic under Windows. > I've a calculation that runs without difficulty in 512MB under Mac OS X > (10.3 or 10.4); I'd expect the same under Linux. Under Windows > (XP professional) with 512MB, it requires a freshly booted system. > But maybe the new machines will have so much memory that memory > management will not be an issue.
I've been running a lot of generalized additive models on large datasets (mgvc package;R 2.2.0; Win XP) and I find that the first few models run much much faster than later models. A reboot seems to make things go fast again. Simply deleting everything from the root workspace doesn't help. Greg Greg Wellenius Cardiovascular Epidemiology Research Unit Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center 330 Brookline Avenue, Deac 306 Boston, MA 02215 ______________________________________________ [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
