[R] R process gets killed spontaneously

[Benilton Carvalho]

Hi Peng,

in a very simplistic manner, what happens is that the Operating System  
"thinks" it is too dangerous to let the R process to use so much  
memory. So, to protect the whole system, it kills R, before the system  
becomes unstable.

I've been looking at the problem you observed last week and, as I  
promised, I will come back to you with my findings sometime this week.  
I was already informed on how to reduce the memory footprint when  
creating the specific object you're interested in, but still need to  
run some tests.

Will get back to you soon,

b

On Nov 10, 2009, at 2:23 PM, Peng Yu wrote:

> 2009/11/10 Uwe Ligges <ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de>:
>>
>>
>> Peng Yu wrote:
>>>
>>> My R process has been killed for a few times, although the system
>>> administrator did not do so. It happened when R attempted to  
>>> allocate
>>> a lot of memory. I'm wondering whether R would spontaneously kill
>>> itself if it can not allocate enough memory?
>>
>>
>> It does not kill itself. If it was not some out-of-memory kill  
>> process of
>> your OS, then you may have seen some segfault. We need reproducible  
>> code and
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