> * Milan Bouchet-Valat <anyvzv...@pyho.se> [2012-02-29 18:18:50 +0100]: > > I think you're simply hitting a (terrible) OS limitation. Linux is > very often not able to reclaim the memory R has used because it's > fragmented. The OS can only get the pages back if nothing is above > them, and most of the time there is data after the object you > remove. I'm not able to give you a more precise explanation, but > that's apparently a known problem and that's hard to fix.
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