On Thursday 18. April 2013 12.18.03 Milan Bouchet-Valat wrote: > First, completely stop looking at virtual memory: it does not mean much, if > anything. What you care about is resident memory. See e.g.: > http://serverfault.com/questions/138427/top-what-does-virtual-memory-size-m > ean-linux-ubuntu
I concur. I have lost track of R's internals long ago, but in a previous life analyzing the Apache HTTP server's actual memory use (something that focused on shared RAM, quite different from what you'd probably like to do), I found that if you really need to understand what's going on, you would need to look elsewhere. On Linux, you'll find the details in the /proc/[pid]/maps and /proc/[pid]/smaps pseudo-filesystem files, where [pid] is the process ID, im your example 6210. That's where you really see what's eating your RAM. :-) Cheers, KJetil ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
