On Jun 20, 2010, at 11:15 AM, Saptarshi Guha wrote: > Hello, > I get an error when binary structures from a pipe > > 'Error: cons memory exhausted (limit reached?)' (but R does not crash) > > This is probably due to some bug in my code, but occurs after reading > about 85K pairs of RAWSXP objects (each < 20 bytes). > > I do not have any explicit calls to malloc/calloc >
It has nothing to do with malloc/calloc - it means that the number of nodes (=R objects) has reached the limit. Normally the limit is soft so it will adjust up to SIZE_MAX (for all practical purposes unlimited on 64-bit machines). However, in low-memory conditions it may not be possible to allocate more heap space so that is more likely your limit. > I'm going through my code and have inserted the (brute force) printf > statements > my question is: Does anybody have an advice on debugging this particular > error? > You can set a breakpoint on mem_err_cons. In general it means that you are simply running out of memory. Cheers, Simon ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
