Suspected memory leak with R v.2.5.x and large matrices with dimnames set

Hi Peter,

Peter Waltman <waltman at cs.nyu.edu> 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 understand what you are reporting.  One thing to keep
in mind is that how memory released by R is handled is OS dependent
and one will often observe that after R frees some memory, the OS does
not report that amount as now free.

Is what you are observing preventing you from getting things done, or
just a concern that there is a leak that needs fixing?  It is worth
noting that the internal handling of character vectors has changed in
R-devel and so IMO testing there would make sense before persuing this
further, I suspect your results will be different.

+ seth

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