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Subject: Memory management
From: "Stiff, Charles (TIFPC)" <CStiff@templeinland.com>
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 16:51:51 -0600
I am running a Dell Latitude laptop with a Pentium III 500 mhz processor and
128 MB of RAM using Windows 95 and S-Plus 6.

The data set I am analyzing has 86K obervations with 35 variables. Many of
the procedures which I use require sorting and/or use of "by" variables. The
processing time is veeerrry slow. Will increasing RAM noticeably increase my
performance? Will S-Plus efficiently use all the RAM I can install in the
computer (512 MB) or is there a ceiling?

Thanks for your assistance.

Charles T. Stiff, PhD
Temple-Inland Forest Products Corporation
P.O. Drawer N
207 N. Temple Drive
Diboll, Texas 75941
Phone: 936-829-7852
FAX:    936-829-1601
E-mail: cstiff@templeinland.com


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