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Hi all, Why is the object size of an empty vector 40 bytes? (At least in 64-bit R.) object.size(integer(0)) # 40 bytes Reading R internals, it looks like it should be: * 4 bytes: sxpinfo header (= 32 bits) * 8 bytes: pointer to attributes * 8 bytes: pointer to next node * 8 bytes: pointer to previous node * 4 bytes: length * 4 bytes: true length = 36 bytes Where are the extra 4 bytes coming

I have a data set of roughly 700MB which during processing grows up to 2G ( I'm using a 4G linux box). After the work is done I clean up (rm()) and the state is returned to 700MB. Yet I find I cannot run the same routine again as it claims to not be able to allocate memory even though gcinfo() claims there is 1.1G left. At the start of the second time ===============================

I have a data set of roughly 700MB which during processing grows up to 2G ( I'm using a 4G linux box). After the work is done I clean up (rm()) and the state is returned to 700MB. Yet I find I cannot run the same routine again as it claims to not be able to allocate memory even though gcinfo() claims there is 1.1G left. At the start of the second time ===============================