R memory management
Yuri Volchik wrote:
I'm using R to collect data for a number of exchanges through a socket connection and constantly running into memory problems even though task I believe is not that memory consuming. I guess there is a miscommunication between R and WinXP about freeing up memory.
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But the end result is in Task Manager: RGui.exe Mem Usage 470,472K VM Size 541,988K Even though R reports Garbage collection 16808 = 15754+802+252 (level 0) ... 6.1 Mbytes of cons cells used (7%) 1.8 Mbytes of vectors used (1%) Has anybody encountered this problem and how you guys deal with it? It seems like a memory leak to me, as tasks are not memory demandind, the biggest amount of data in a single file is about 40MB.
Yuri,
This probably belongs on the R users list. Most of the R core
developers are on that list. Even though you are working with exchange
data, your question isn't really finance related, and you'll probably
get more assistance on r-users.
Regards,
- Brian