rJava memory profiler
.jmemprof
enables or disables rJava memory profiling. If rJava
was compiled without memory profiling support, then a call to this
function always causes an error.
.jmemprof(file = "-")
file |
file to write profiling information to or |
The file
parameter must be either a filename (which will be
opened in append-mode) or "-" to use standard output or NULL
to
disable profiling. An empty string "" is equivalent to NULL
in
this context.
Note that lots of finalizers are run only when R exists, so usually you want to enable profiling early and let R exit to get a sensible profile. Running gc may be helpful to get rid of references that can be collected in R.
A simple perl script is provided to analyze the result of the profiler. Due to its simple text format, it is possible to capture entire stdout including the profiler information to have both the console context for the allocations and the profile. Memory profiling is also helpful if rJava debug is enabled.
Note that memory profiling support must be compiled in rJava and it is by default compiled only if debug mode is enabled (which is not the case by default).
Returns NULL
.
## memory profiling support is optional so only works when enabled tryCatch( .jmemprof("rJava.mem.profile.txt"), error=function(e) message(e))
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