Cool, glad to have gotten down to the bottom of this. Davor
On October 30, 2011 08:48:10 PM Slava Razbash wrote: > Drik, Davor, > > I don't think that what I was observing was a memory leak. > > I have ran the functions provided by Dirk. I have also used gc() as > suggested by Davor. The memory "used", as reported by gc(), was the > same before and after running fRcppArma() in a loop. Although the > amount reported by Task Manager was different. However, in this: > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6311962/tracking-memory-usage-and-garbag > e-collection-in-r StackOverflow post, where Martin Morgan writes that "at > times the task manager's notion of memory use might not accurately reflect > the memory actually in use by R". > > For fRcpp() and fRC(), there is a very slight difference in memory > "used" before and after gc(). > > > I also ran the functions in the order: fRC(), fRcpp() and fRcppArma() > all in one R session. The memory usage reported by Task Manager > increased most for fRC(), less for fRcpp() and even less for > fRcppArma(). > > Memory used by fRcpp() and fRcppArma() did not increase with time. > fRC() cause task manager to report two step-ups in memory usage. > > Thank you, > > Slava > > On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 12:59 AM, Dirk Eddelbuettel <e...@debian.org> wrote: > > On 28 October 2011 at 16:38, Davor Cubranic wrote: > > | Instead of looking at Task Manager or Top, could you also look at the > > | output of "gc(TRUE)" before and after running the microbenchmark? > > | > > | Or even use mallinfo for full details of memory allocations > > | (http://rforge.net/mallinfo/files/, and there is a thread illustrating > > | its use at http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.r.devel/28945). > > > > Go ahead, I await your results :) > > > > I already wrote three emails explaining that I cannot see the error that > > Slava reports... > > > > Dirk > > > > -- > > "Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it is > > too dark to read." -- Groucho Marx > > _______________________________________________ > > Rcpp-devel mailing list > > Rcpp-devel@lists.r-forge.r-project.org > > https://lists.r-forge.r-project.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rcpp-devel _______________________________________________ Rcpp-devel mailing list Rcpp-devel@lists.r-forge.r-project.org https://lists.r-forge.r-project.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rcpp-devel
