[rkward-devel] memory management

[meik michalke]

hi,

over the past few days, i collected some amount of data, i.e. a script 
examined more than 120.000 XML documents. for a while this ran just fine, but 
at a certain point the machine ran out of RAM. i then included a manual call 
to gc() in the loop, which actually already removed all processed objects with 
rm() so i didn't think i'd run into problems, but that still didn't really 
help as much as i had thought.

i just examined this a bit. calling gc() in RKWard *looks* like it really 
frees memory, but on the system level i don't notice a significant reduction. 
only after i close RKWard the memory level goes back considerably. can it be 
that the memory freed by R is still occupied by RKWard throughout a session?


viele grüße :: m.eik

-- 
dipl. psych. meik michalke
institut f"ur experimentelle psychologie
abt. f"ur diagnostik und differentielle psychologie
heinrich-heine-universit"at d-40204 d"usseldorf
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