On Thu, 5 Jun 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
