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Demonstration of odd memory usage in R whereby the resident set size (RSS) doesn't change despite allocating more memory and later clearing it
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| ```{r} | |
| RSQLite::SQLite() |> | |
| DBI::dbConnect(":memory:") |> | |
| RSQLite::dbWriteTable("foo", data.frame( | |
| a = numeric(1E8) | |
| )) | |
| invisible(gc()) | |
| ps::ps_memory_info() | |
| y <- integer(1E8) | |
| ps::ps_memory_info() | |
| rm(y) | |
| invisible(gc()) | |
| ps::ps_memory_info() | |
| ``` |
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