Hi -
Admittedly, this may not be the most sophisticated memory profiling
performed, but when using unix's top command, I'm noticing a notable
memory leak when using R with a large matrix that has dimnames set.
To allow people to reproduce the problem I'm seeing, I've
Hi Peter,
Peter Waltman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Admittedly, this may not be the most sophisticated memory profiling
performed, but when using unix's top command, I'm noticing a notable
memory leak when using R with a large matrix that has dimnames
set.
I'm not sure I
Hi Seth -
Thanks for the follow up. I'll definitely check out the devel version
at some point since while I've come up with a workaround, this is
causing problems for me as it uses up so much memory on some systems
that R starts throwing malloc errors and has to be killed from the
command
Seth's analysis is correct. R does return what it can to the malloc
system by calling free. When and how much memory malloc releases back
to the OS varies with OS and malloc system and also depends on the
sizes of allocations. R curently allocates its memory for small
objects in pages of about
