John, Unless you are doing something very unusual (such as using a database to keep intermediate results) SSD hardware will have no affect on R being memory bound. According to the behavior you described, you need RAM.
R. Mark Sharp, Ph.D. Director of Primate Records Database Southwest National Primate Research Center Texas Biomedical Research Institute P.O. Box 760549 San Antonio, TX 78245-0549 Telephone: (210)258-9476 e-mail: msh...@txbiomed.org > On Sep 14, 2015, at 10:44 AM, Kulas, John T. <jtku...@stcloudstate.edu> wrote: > > I have several lab computers that frequently lag/crash with R apparently due > to low RAM (they're all 8 GB) > > I put in a request to up the RAM to 32 GB on a few, but my tech support is > suggesting an SSD harddrive upgrade instead of the increased RAM. > > Any suggestions on the better approach (SSD harddrive vs increased RAM to > help R chug along)? > > Thanks much - John > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
