[R] Problem in executing R on server

[Erik Iverson]

And what is your sessionInfo() in each case!

Jason Lee wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I query free -m,
> 
> On my server it is,
> 
>              total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
> Mem:         32190       8758      23431          0        742       2156
> 
> And on my pc,
> 
>              total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
> Mem:          1002        986         16          0        132        255
> 
> 
> On the server, the above figure is after I exited the R.
> It seems that there are still alot free MB available if I am not wrong.
> 
> On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 12:29 PM, Erik Iverson <iverson at biostat.wisc.edu 
> <mailto:iverson at biostat.wisc.edu>> wrote:
> 
>     How much RAM is installed in your Sun Solaris server?  How much RAM
>     is installed on your PC?
> 
>     Jason Lee wrote:
> 
>         Hi,
> 
>         I am actually trying to do some matrix multiplications of large
>         datasets of 3000 columns and 150 rows.
> 
>         And I am running R version 2.7.0. <http://2.7.0.> <http://2.7.0.>
> 
> 
>         I tried setting  R --min-vsize=10M --max-vsize=100M
>         --min-nsize=500k --max-nsize=1000M
> 
>         Yet I still get:-
> 
>         Error: cannot allocate vector of size 17.7 Mb
> 
>         I am running on Sun Solaris server.
> 
>         Please advise.
>         Thanks.
>         On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 11:50 AM, Erik Iverson
>         <iverson at biostat.wisc.edu <mailto:iverson at biostat.wisc.edu>
>         <mailto:iverson at biostat.wisc.edu
>         <mailto:iverson at biostat.wisc.edu>>> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>            Jason Lee wrote:
> 
>                Hi R-listers,
> 
>                I have problem in executing my R on server. It returns me
> 
>                Error: cannot allocate vector of size 15.8 Mb
> 
>                each time when i execute R on the server. But it doesnt
>         give me
>                any problem
>                when i try executing on my own Pc (except it runs
>         extremely slow).
> 
>                Any pointers to this? I tried to read the FAQ on this issue
>                before in the
>                archive but it seems there is no one solution to this.
> 
> 
>            And that is because there is no one cause to this issue.  I might
>            guess your 'server' has less memory than your 'PC', but you
>         didn't
>            say anything your respective setups, or what you are even
>         trying to
>            do with R.
> 
> 
>             I tried to
> 
>                simplified my code but it seems the problem is still the
>         same.
> 
> 
> 
>                Please advise. Thanks.
> 
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