[R] Multicore/Parallel

[Jeff Newmiller]

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Tjun Kiat Teo <teotjunk at gmail.com> wrote:

>I am using the package Multicore/Parallel to do importance sampling. I
>have
>5 cores on my computer. And I have
>let's say 10 000 particles to generate. What I did was to send 5
>particles
>in each time, calling the package parallel. Which means in all I am
>calling
>the parallel command 2000 times.
>What happens is in the end somewhere along the way I end up with the
>error
>message error in fork unable to create a pipe. Would it be better for
>me to
>call the parallel once only but each time send in 2000 particles in
>each
>parallel process.
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