Re: [R] Looking for recommendations for optimal memory settings
Prof Brian Ripley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, 17 Nov 2003, Busch, Joe wrote: We have a Windows 2000 operating system and I need to configure the workstations. What are your recommendations for users with very large data sets (300Mb)? The systems are Dell GX240s with 512 Mbs of Ram. What command line or environment variables work best? The default ones. Just add another 1.5Gb of RAM and then consider using --max-mem-size, the only setting that will make any real difference. (The next minor version of R, probably 1.9.0, will make better use of 2Gb under Windows than the current one, so you may want to compile up pre-releases of that.) From what I can see in looking at a couple of reviews, the GX240 uses PC133 DIMMs and comes standard with 256 MB. Depending on the number of DIMM slots on the motherboard and the capacity of each slot it may only be able to handle 1GB of memory and even that may mean removing the 256 MB DIMMs to replace them with 512 MB DIMMs. The good news is that doing so is reasonably cheap. According to www.pricewatch.com PC133 512 MB DIMMs are available for as little as (US)$40 whereas PC133 1 GB DIMMs are (US)$160 and up. __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
[R] Looking for recommendations for optimal memory settings
We have a Windows 2000 operating system and I need to configure the workstations. What are your recommendations for users with very large data sets (300Mb)? The systems are Dell GX240s with 512 Mbs of Ram. What command line or environment variables work best? Sincerely, Joe Busch Urban Institute __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
Re: [R] Looking for recommendations for optimal memory settings
On Mon, 17 Nov 2003, Busch, Joe wrote: We have a Windows 2000 operating system and I need to configure the workstations. What are your recommendations for users with very large data sets (300Mb)? The systems are Dell GX240s with 512 Mbs of Ram. What command line or environment variables work best? The default ones. Just add another 1.5Gb of RAM and then consider using --max-mem-size, the only setting that will make any real difference. (The next minor version of R, probably 1.9.0, will make better use of 2Gb under Windows than the current one, so you may want to compile up pre-releases of that.) -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UKFax: +44 1865 272595 __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
