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...my head because there were no such problem on my laptop running on OS X!). So I'm not sure that such problem can be ignored. Consider following examples - we will create large list with many small objects (code which contains fully reproducible example here - https://gist.github.com/dselivanov/d2ff0435a352424d2c7329d918293946): large_list = lapply(1:1e6, function(i) { runif(100) }) rm(large_list) gc() After that on OS X *resident memory* memory successfully shrinks to ~ 100mb, but on Ubuntu is remains at ~ 1gb. I understand that this 1gb of ram can be (and will be) reused for allocations of new small objects. So if...