[Rd] Help to create bugzilla account

Iñaki Úcar i.ucar86 at gmail.com
Fri Aug 11 18:57:03 CEST 2017


2017-08-11 16:00 GMT+02:00 Martin Maechler <maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch>:
>>>>>> Dmitriy Selivanov <selivanov.dmitriy at gmail.com>
>>>>>>     on Fri, 11 Aug 2017 17:33:31 +0400 writes:
>
>     > Hi mailing list and R-core. Could someone from R-core please help me to
>     > create account in bugzilla? I would like to submit issue related to gc() to
>     > wishlist.
>
> I will create one.
>
> Your previous e-mails left me pretty clueless about what the
> problem is that you want to solve ... but maybe others
> understand better what you mean.
>
> Note that in the case of such a relatively sophisticated wish
> without a clear sign of a problem (in my view)
> chances are not high that anything will change, unless someone
> provides a (small footprint) patch towards the (R-devel aka
> "trunk") sources *and* reproducible R code that depicts the
> problem.

How to reproduce it:

a <- replicate(2e6, new.env()) # ~ 1.4 GB of memory
rm(a)
gc() # the R process still has the memory assigned

Iñaki



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