Message-ID: <17139.9194.573844.972908@stat.math.ethz.ch>
Date: 2005-08-05T08:31:38Z
From: Martin Maechler
Subject: clara - memory limit
In-Reply-To: <D9A95B4B7B20354992E165EEADA31999056A9569@uswpmx00.merck.com>
>>>>> "ReidH" == Huntsinger, Reid <reid_huntsinger at merck.com>
>>>>> on Wed, 3 Aug 2005 13:21:45 -0400 writes:
ReidH> I thought setting keep.data=FALSE might help, but
ReidH> running this on a 32-bit Linux machine, the R process
ReidH> seems to use 1.2 GB until just before clara returns,
ReidH> when it increases to 1.9 GB, regardless of whether
ReidH> keep.data=FALSE or TRUE. Possibly it's the overhead
ReidH> of the .C() interface, but that's mostly an
ReidH> uninformed guess.
not only; I've found at least one place to save more memory for
'keep.data = FALSE',
thanks to your careful observation, Reid!
This, together, with another small change, will lead to a new
release of the cluster package, soon.
Martin Maechler, ETH Zurich