Re: [R] Determining if swap memory is turned off

2009-06-26 Thread John C Frain
On windows XP | start | Control Panel | System | Advanced | Performance | Settings | Advanced | Virtual Memory | and select No Pagefile. I suspect Vista is similar. John 2009/6/26 Prof. John C Nash : > In order to run some performance tests on optimization tools, I want to be > able > to avoid t

[R] Determining if swap memory is turned off

2009-06-26 Thread Prof. John C Nash
In order to run some performance tests on optimization tools, I want to be able to avoid the use of swap memory. In *nix systems, at least Linux ones, I can issue a 'sudo swapoff -a' command and use just the RAM available. If I don't do this, at some point swap will be used, the disk goes balli