Message-ID: <E28579DF-AB4E-11D8-8DA0-000A95C87F66@unimi.it>
Date: 2004-05-21T19:47:16Z
From: stefano iacus
Subject: Memory Leak in OS X versions? (PR#6903)
In-Reply-To: <20040521132440.BA60A10590@slim.kubism.ku.dk>
I can confirm the behaviour (btw, 1.9.0 is not beta) in 1.9.0 and in
R-patched
I'll try to investigate.
stefano
On May 21, 2004, at 3:24 PM, dvanbrunt@well-wired.com wrote:
> Full_Name: David L. Van Brunt
> Version: 1.8-1.9 beta
> OS: OS X 10.3
> Submission from: (NULL) (68.74.58.109)
>
>
> As posted on R-Help (after which another user replicated the problem):
> ---------------
> This is the conclusion from a prior thread ([R] " cannot allocate
> vector of
> length 1072693248") which ended with no other answer but that there
> must be
> a problem in the OS X version of R, or in the compile of the source on
> OS X.
>
> I?ve posted code and data here:
> http://www.well-wired.com/reflibrary/uploads/1084503247.zip
>
> If you setwd() into the directory that is made, then ?source()? the
> ?.R?
> file, it should run fine on Windows but crash on any machine with OS X
> (Panther) giving: ?Error in as.vector(data) : cannot allocate vector of
> length 1073741824? after a few iterations of the loop.
>
> I've repeated this on a Powerbook G4 with 500 MB of RAM, an iMac with
> 128M
> of RAM, and a Dual 2GHz G5 with 1.5 Gig of RAM. Have used the Raqua,
> the
> Frameworks installation, and a fresh compile of the source using Fink
> in the
> X11 implementation. No matter the machine or the version (1.8x through
> 1.9,
> OS X or Unix X11), I get the same result.
>
> Thanks to Andy Liaw for helping me tune the code this far.
>
> I'm stumped. Would love to hear others' experience with this, and if
> they
> can reproduce the problem elsewhere.
>
>
> --
> David L. Van Brunt, Ph.D.
> Outlier Consulting & Development
> mailto: <ocd@well-wired.com>
>
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