[rkward-devel] memory management

[Thomas Friedrichsmeier]

Hi,

On Sunday 06 May 2012, meik michalke wrote:
> 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?

I'm fairly confident that this is not specific to RKWard. See item 7.42 from 
the R FAQ:

  http://cran.r-project.org/doc/FAQ/R-FAQ.html#Why-is-R-apparently-not-
releasing-memory_003f

Certainly, RKWard adds some memory overhead, and probably it does leak a bit 
of memory here or there, but it should not interfere with R's memory 
(de-)allocation.

Regards
Thomas
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