[BioC] memory management in Win XP

[Robert Gentleman]

Hi,
 This is an R question, not a bioconductor one, it is both covered in
 the FAQ and in some very extensive discussions on r-help (which is
 online and searchable), have a look there and I believe all your
 questions will be answered,

   Robert

On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 02:23:15PM -0500, Kimpel, Mark W wrote:
> I am running into memory limits and have been unable to write the
> correct code to increase the allocation size. Below is my output. I am
> currently running Windows XP with 2 GB of RAM. Windows Task Manager
> tells me that I have over 1GB of physical memory free so I should have
> plenty of room to increase.
> 
>  > memory.size(max=T)
> 
> [1] 126066688
> 
> > memory.limit()
> 
> [1] 1073741824
> 
> > memory.size()
> 
> [1] 126033080
> 
> > memory.limit(size=1024)  #Shouldn't this increase the memory
> allocation to 1 GB?
> 
> NULL
> 
> > memory.size()
> 
> [1] 126033080
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Mark
> 
> Mark W. Kimpel MD
>  
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>  
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