On Fri, 3 Mar 2000, Strumila, John wrote:
> howdy gurus,
>
> I'm new and green and I was hoping for a tiny bit of your expertise.
>
> I'm running out of virtual memory (heap?) when summing using tapply.
I've
> already used --vsize=90M on my hpux machine. (details below)
>
> Can I pre-sort or something to prevent my error?
Look at the rowsum() command. I think it will do what you want.
-thomas
Thomas Lumley
Assistant Professor, Biostatistics
University of Washington, Seattle
>
> thanks,
> John Strumila
> john.strumila at corpmail.telstra.com.au
>
>
> > gc()["Vcells","total"]
> [1] 11796480
> > gcinfo(TRUE)
> [1] FALSE
> >
t1<-tapply(trace$elapsed,list(trace$pid,trace$hv,trace$transno),sum)
> Garbage collection [nr. 11]...
> 104285 cons cells free (41%)
> 90082 Kbytes of heap free (98%)
> Garbage collection [nr. 12]...
> 102205 cons cells free (40%)
> 90050 Kbytes of heap free (98%)
> Garbage collection [nr. 13]...
> 103347 cons cells free (41%)
> 90131 Kbytes of heap free (98%)
> Garbage collection [nr. 14]...
> 105301 cons cells free (42%)
> 90188 Kbytes of heap free (98%)
> Error: heap memory (92160 Kb) exhausted [needed 209243 Kb more]
> See "help(Memory)" on how to increase the heap size.
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