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memory use problem.

3 messages · chrisk, Brian Ripley

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I having issues with my memory size in R for Windows.  I have implemented the
3gb switch for Windows 7 32 bit with 8gb of memory, only 4gb is available
for use due to 32 bit limitations.  512Mb is taken by the shared video card,
the memory limit is 2559mb yet I cannot use more than 1.5 gb of memory.  I
have searched eveywhere and cannot find any resolution to my issue.
[1] 2559
[1] 399.47
Error: cannot allocate vector of size 1.4 Gb
used  (Mb) gc trigger  (Mb) max used  (Mb)
Ncells   726003  19.4    2251281  60.2  1677683  44.8
Vcells 37249684 284.2   93398451 712.6 93388743 712.5
[1] 15093.3
Thank you,

Chris



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On 10/09/2012 16:13, chrisk wrote:
?'Memory-limits' told you why

      It is not normally possible to allocate as much as 2Gb to a single
      vector in a 32-bit build of R even on 64-bit Windows because of
      preallocations by Windows in the middle of the address space.

'Search eveywhere' seems not to have included the R help ... I agree 
that Microsoft is very coy about what it does to your address space.