Peter Haverty haverty.pe...@gene.com
on Mon, 19 Jan 2015 08:50:08 -0800 writes:
Hi All, This is a very important issue. It would be very
sad to leave most users unaware of a free speedup of this
size. These options don't appear in the R --help
output. They really should
Thanks for this.
Anyone know how I can find what those initial settings are from within
R? Do I need to parse/look at both environment variables R_NSIZE and
R_VSIZE and then commandArgs()?
/Henrik
On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 1:42 AM, Martin Maechler
maech...@stat.math.ethz.ch wrote:
Peter Haverty
Hi All,
This is a very important issue. It would be very sad to leave most users
unaware of a free speedup of this size. These options don't appear in the
R --help output. They really should be added there. Additionally, if the
garbage collector is working very hard, might it emit a note about
On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 3:55 PM, Michael Lawrence
lawrence.mich...@gene.com wrote:
Just wanted to start a discussion on whether R could ship with more
appropriate GC parameters.
I've been doing a number of similar measurements, and have come to the
same conclusion. R is currently very
Martin Morgan discussed this a year or so ago and as I recall bumped
up these values to the current defaults. I don't recall details about
why we didn't go higher -- maybe Martin does. I suspect the main
concern would be with small memory machines in student labs and less
developed countries. If
Just wanted to start a discussion on whether R could ship with more
appropriate GC parameters. Right now, loading the recommended package
Matrix leads to:
library(Matrix)
gc()
used (Mb) gc trigger (Mb) max used (Mb)
Ncells 1076796 57.61368491 73.1 1198505 64.1
Vcells 1671329 12.8
