Re: [rkward-devel] memory management

2012-05-09 Thread meik michalke
hi prasenjit & thomas, Am Sonntag, 6. Mai 2012 08:56:20 schrieb Thomas Friedrichsmeier: > I'm fairly confident that this is not specific to RKWard. See item 7.42 > from the R FAQ: > > http://cran.r-project.org/doc/FAQ/R-FAQ.html#Why-is-R-apparently-not- > releasing-memory_003f thanks for your

Re: [rkward-devel] memory management

2012-05-05 Thread Thomas Friedrichsmeier
Hi, On Sunday 06 May 2012, meik michalke wrote: > i just examined this a bit. calling gc() in RKWard *looks* like it really > frees memory, but on the system level i don't notice a significant > reduction. only after i close RKWard the memory level goes back > considerably. can it be that the memo

Re: [rkward-devel] memory management

2012-05-05 Thread Prasenjit Kapat
On Sat, May 5, 2012 at 6:10 PM, meik michalke wrote: > hi, > > over the past few days, i collected some amount of data, i.e. a script > examined more than 120.000 XML documents. for a while this ran just fine, but > at a certain point the machine ran out of RAM. i then included a manual call > to

[rkward-devel] memory management

2012-05-05 Thread meik michalke
hi, over the past few days, i collected some amount of data, i.e. a script examined more than 120.000 XML documents. for a while this ran just fine, but at a certain point the machine ran out of RAM. i then included a manual call to gc() in the loop, which actually already removed all processed ob