I allocated --vsize 250M (on a machine with 512Mb physical memory) and ran> gcinfo(T) > repeat{mean(rnorm(100))}Garbage collection [nr. 2]... 129352 cons cells free (51%) 255636 Kbytes of heap free (-31%) The percentage of heap free is less than 0. --please do not edit the information below-- Version: platform = i686-unknown-linux arch = i686 os = linux system = i686, linux status = Patched (unreleased) major = 0 minor = 65.0 year = 1999 month = September day = 21 language = R Search Path: .GlobalEnv, Autoloads, package:base -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-devel mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-devel-request@stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._