memory trouble
On Thu, 4 Jan 2001, Martin Maechler wrote:
In spite of Brian's good points, I believe we should help the users more. R-1.1.1 --vanilla had rnorm(1e7)
>> Error: heap memory (6144 Kb) exhausted [needed 78125 Kb more] >> See "help(Memory)" on how to increase the heap size.
which is much more helpful than the
>> Error: cannot allocate vector of size 39062 Kb
that R-1.2.0 reports (much much more rarely though, I couldn't reproduce it in a few tries !)
The error is different: it is coming from inside malloc. Under those circumstances you really can't do much, in particular nothing that needs memory allocation. This is not a question of the heap being exhausted: it is a question of the process having fit its limits.
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