From p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk  Tue Nov  7 00:30:48 2006
From: p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk (Peter Dalgaard)
Date: 07 Nov 2006 00:30:48 +0100
Subject: [Rd] gc()$Vcells < 0 (PR#9345)
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dmaszle at mendelbio.com writes:

> Full_Name: Don Maszle
> Version: 2.3.0
> OS: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
> Submission from: (NULL) (206.86.87.3)
> 
> 
> # On our new 32 GB x86_64 machine
> 
> R : Copyright 2006, The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
> Version 2.3.0 (2006-04-24)
> ISBN 3-900051-07-0
> 
> R is free software and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
> You are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions.
> Type 'license()' or 'licence()' for distribution details.
> 
>   Natural language support but running in an English locale
> 
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> Type 'contributors()' for more information and
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> Type 'demo()' for some demos, 'help()' for on-line help, or
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> Type 'q()' to quit R.
> 
> > R.version
>                _                         
> platform       x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu  
> arch           x86_64                    
> os             linux-gnu                 
> system         x86_64, linux-gnu         
> status                                   
> major          2                         
> minor          3.0                       
> year           2006                      
> month          04                        
> day            24                        
> svn rev        37909                     
> language       R                         
> version.string Version 2.3.0 (2006-04-24)
> 
> > x<-matrix(nrow=44000,ncol=48000)
> > y<-matrix(nrow=44000,ncol=48000)
> > z<-matrix(nrow=44000,ncol=48000)
> > gc()
>               used    (Mb) gc trigger    (Mb) max used    (Mb)
> Ncells      177801     9.5     407500    21.8   350000    18.7
> Vcells -1126881981 24170.6         NA 24173.4       NA 24170.6

Sorry, can't reproduce that. Please send 32GB machine ;-)

You might want to retry with 2.4.0(-patched) for good measure, though.

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[Rd] gc()$Vcells < 0 (PR#9345)
Peter Dalgaard