Thanks for this.
Anyone know how I can find what those initial settings are from within
R? Do I need to parse/look at both environment variables R_NSIZE and
R_VSIZE and then commandArgs()?
/Henrik
On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 1:42 AM, Martin Maechler
wrote:
>> Peter Haverty
>> on Mon,
> Peter Haverty
> on Mon, 19 Jan 2015 08:50:08 -0800 writes:
> Hi All, This is a very important issue. It would be very
> sad to leave most users unaware of a free speedup of this
> size. These options don't appear in the R --help
> output. They really should be added
Hi All,
This is a very important issue. It would be very sad to leave most users
unaware of a free speedup of this size. These options don't appear in the
R --help output. They really should be added there. Additionally, if the
garbage collector is working very hard, might it emit a note about be
On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 3:55 PM, Michael Lawrence
wrote:
> Just wanted to start a discussion on whether R could ship with more
> appropriate GC parameters.
I've been doing a number of similar measurements, and have come to the
same conclusion. R is currently very conservative about memory usage,
Martin Morgan discussed this a year or so ago and as I recall bumped
up these values to the current defaults. I don't recall details about
why we didn't go higher -- maybe Martin does. I suspect the main
concern would be with small memory machines in student labs and less
developed countries. If t
