memuse (version 2.5)

procmem: procmem

Description

Shows the amount of ram used by the current R process.

Usage

Sys.procmem(gcFirst = TRUE)

Arguments

gcFirst

logical; determines if garbage collection should be called before getting process memory usage.

Value

Returns a list, whose values are platform dependent in addition to being modified by input arguments.

Details

Sys.procmem() returns the total memory usage of the current R process, and (if supported), the maximum memory usage as well.

All of the C-level source code for these methods (in src/meminfo of the root directory of the memuse source tree) is licensed under the permissive 2-Clause BSD license.

See Also

meminfo

Examples

## Not run: 
# library(memuse)
# 
# ### How much is being used?
# Sys.procmem()
# 
# ### Use more.
# x <- rnorm(1e7)
# Sys.procmem()
# 
# ### Use less.
# rm(x)
# gc(FALSE)
# Sys.procmem()
# ## End(Not run)