R help - Nov 2006 - --max-vsize option

The R memory docs say that the --*-vsize option takes an integer 
argument and then 'G', 'M', 'K', or 'k'.  When I
start R using

R --max-vsize=10G

I receive the warning:

WARNING: --max-vsize=10G=10'M': too large and ignored

The system that I'm working on is a 64-bit Sun server with 40G of 
memory.  What is the correct syntax for this command?

Daniel Gatti
UNC-CH

On Wed, 29 Nov 2006, Daniel Gatti wrote:
> The R memory docs say that the --*-vsize option takes an integer
> argument and then 'G', 'M', 'K', or 'k'. 
When I start R using
>
> R --max-vsize=10G
>
> I receive the warning:
>
> WARNING: --max-vsize=10G=10'M': too large and ignored
>
> The system that I'm working on is a 64-bit Sun server with 40G of
> memory.  What is the correct syntax for this command?
But is this a 64-bit build of R?  (Solaris is 32-bit by default.)
R --max-vsize=10G  works on 64-bit Solaris build for me, but I get that 
(somewhat garbled) message on a 32-bit build.

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Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
> But is this a 64-bit build of R?  (Solaris is 32-bit by default.)
> R --max-vsize=10G  works on 64-bit Solaris build for me, but I get that 
> (somewhat garbled) message on a 32-bit build.
Thanks.  That was it.  Apparently they had compiled R with 32-bit 
settings.  They had just gotten R 2.4.0 compiled for 64-bits and asked 
me to try it out.  It works.

Dan