On 16/02/2008 7:56 PM, Vadim Organovich wrote: > Hi, > > At some points of my computations I want gc() to try really hard and collect > as many objects as possible even though the triggering limits are not hit. > Will it help if I temporarily set the limits to some small values, call gc() > and then reset them back to their original values? What variables exactly > need to be set? Does anyone have a prototype of such function? > > I tried to read the R help, e.g. Memory and memory.limits(), but I am not > sure I understand how this applies to my case.
See the R Internals manual, or the comments in memory.c. Calling gc() makes it try as hard as it can (a level 2 collection). You can't make it try harder. Duncan Murdoch ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
