On Thu, 5 Jun 2008, bowden at stats.ox.ac.uk wrote:
This amusing behaviour is from R2.6.1 on WinXP Pro SP2 running with boot.in= i /3GB flag, exploring memory limits. =20 When actual (object, not total) memory usage hits 2048 MB, memory.size star= ts counting down again, but reports a negative amount, e.g. -2046.333. Is t= his an intended (or unavoidable) feature?)
Not any more (it was a feature of the malloc used, but that has been updated and R hasn't followed.). Will be changed for 2.7.1.
=20 Thanks, =20 Rory Bowden bowden at stats.ox.ac.uk
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