This was happening to me on Red Hat Linux when I was running huge jobs within a screen session. By any chance are your R processes running within a screen session? (screen is a very nice program that will keep your sessions alive after you log out, but it was killing off my big memory jobs for unknown reasons.)
Eric ----- Original message ----- From: "Peng Yu" <pengyu...@gmail.com> To: r-h...@stat.math.ethz.ch Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 10:23:18 -0600 Subject: Re: [R] R process gets killed spontaneously 2009/11/10 Uwe Ligges <lig...@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 > all the details described in the posting guide. Please see this thread about the necessary information. http://www.mail-archive.com/r-help@r-project.org/msg74804.html ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
