Re: [R] Spare some CPU cycles for testing lme?

2004-09-14 Thread Peter Dalgaard
Tamas K Papp [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 On Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 08:40:15AM -0400, Frank Samuelson wrote:
 
  If anyone has a few extra CPU cycles to spare,
  I'd appreciate it if you could verify a problem that I
  have encountered.  Run the code
  below and tell me if it crashes your R before
  completion.
  
  library(lme4)
  data(bdf)
  dump-sapply( 1:5, function(i) {
  fm - lme(langPOST ~ IQ.ver.cen + avg.IQ.ver.cen, data = bdf,
random = ~ IQ.ver.cen | schoolNR);
  cat(  ,i,\r)
  0
  })
 
 Hi,
 
 It ran smoothly on my installation.
 
  version  
  _  
 platform powerpc-apple-darwin6.8

Ditto (SuSE 9.1)

platform x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
arch x86_64
os   linux-gnu
system   x86_64, linux-gnu
status   Under development (unstable)
major2
minor0.0
year 2004
month09
day  13
language R


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Re: [R] Spare some CPU cycles for testing lme?

2004-09-14 Thread Thomas Schönhoff
Hello,
Frank Samuelson schrieb:
If anyone has a few extra CPU cycles to spare,
I'd appreciate it if you could verify a problem that I
have encountered.  Run the code
below and tell me if it crashes your R before
completion.
library(lme4)
data(bdf)
dump-sapply( 1:5, function(i) {
fm - lme(langPOST ~ IQ.ver.cen + avg.IQ.ver.cen, data = bdf,
  random = ~ IQ.ver.cen | schoolNR);
cat(  ,i,\r)
0
})

I also tested your code by using R-1.91 under Debian Sid. After hundreds 
of iterations it ended up with the already noticed segmentation fault

HTH
Thomas
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Re: [R] Spare some CPU cycles for testing lme?

2004-09-14 Thread Prof Brian D Ripley
As others have said, this needs tools not CPU cycles: gctorture or valgrind.

Valgrind found (after a few seconds and on the first pass)

==23057== Invalid read of size 4
==23057==at 0x3CF4E645: ssc_symbolic_permute (Mutils.c:373)
==23057==by 0x3CF5BF75: ssclme_create (ssclme.c:168)
==23057==by 0x80AF5E8: do_dotcall
(/users/ripley/R/svn/R-devel/src/main/dotcode.c:640)
==23057==by 0x80CFA84: Rf_eval
(/users/ripley/R/svn/R-devel/src/main/eval.c:399)
==23057==  Address 0x3C7F3BD0 is 4 bytes before a block of size 524 alloc'd
==23057==at 0x3C01CB56: calloc (in
/opt/local/lib/valgrind/vgpreload_memcheck.so)
==23057==by 0x80F9EBE: R_chk_calloc
(/users/ripley/R/svn/R-devel/src/main/memory.c:2151)
==23057==by 0x3CF4E515: ssc_symbolic_permute (Mutils.c:352)
==23057==by 0x3CF5BF75: ssclme_create (ssclme.c:168)
==23057==
==23057== Use of uninitialised value of size 8
==23057==at 0x80C0137: Rf_duplicate
(/users/ripley/R/svn/R-devel/src/main/duplicate.c:160)
==23057==by 0x80BFA85: Rf_duplicate
(/users/ripley/R/svn/R-devel/src/main/duplicate.c:101)
==23057==by 0x80BFEB3: Rf_duplicate
(/users/ripley/R/svn/R-devel/src/main/duplicate.c:154)
==23057==by 0x816ED96: do_subset2_dflt
(/users/ripley/R/svn/R-devel/src/main/subset.c:816)
==23057==
==23057== Conditional jump or move depends on uninitialised value(s)
==23057==at 0x3CF62229: ssclme_fitted (ssclme.c:1587)
==23057==by 0x80AF646: do_dotcall
(/users/ripley/R/svn/R-devel/src/main/dotcode.c:646)
==23057==by 0x80CFA84: Rf_eval
(/users/ripley/R/svn/R-devel/src/main/eval.c:399)
==23057==by 0x80D1D80: do_set
(/users/ripley/R/svn/R-devel/src/main/eval.c:1280)

which is pretty definitive evidence of a problem (possibly 2) in the code.

I strongly recommend valgrind (http://valgrind.kde.org/) if you are using
x86 Linux.  It has found quite a few errors in R and in certain packages
recently.  The only thing to watch is that optimized BLASes will probably
crash it.


On Mon, 13 Sep 2004, Frank Samuelson wrote:

 If anyone has a few extra CPU cycles to spare,
 I'd appreciate it if you could verify a problem that I
 have encountered.  Run the code
 below and tell me if it crashes your R before
 completion.

 library(lme4)
 data(bdf)
 dump-sapply( 1:5, function(i) {
  fm - lme(langPOST ~ IQ.ver.cen + avg.IQ.ver.cen, data = bdf,
random = ~ IQ.ver.cen | schoolNR);
  cat(  ,i,\r)
  0
 })

 The above code simply reruns the example from the
 lme help page a large number of times and returns a bunch
 of 0's, so you'll need to have the lme4 and Matrix
 packages installed.  It might take a while to complete,
 but you can always nice it and let it run.

 I'm attempting to bootstrap lme() from the lme4 package,
 but it causes a
 segfault after a couple hundred iterations.  This happens on
 my Linux x86 RedHat 7.3, 8.0, 9.0, FC1 systems w/ 1.9.1
 and devel 2.0.0 (not all possible combinations actually
 tested.)
 I've communicated w/ Douglas Bates about this and he
 doesn't appear to have the problem.


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Re: [R] Spare some CPU cycles for testing lme?

2004-09-14 Thread Douglas Bates
Prof Brian D Ripley wrote:
As others have said, this needs tools not CPU cycles: gctorture or valgrind.
Valgrind found (after a few seconds and on the first pass)
==23057== Invalid read of size 4
==23057==at 0x3CF4E645: ssc_symbolic_permute (Mutils.c:373)
==23057==by 0x3CF5BF75: ssclme_create (ssclme.c:168)
==23057==by 0x80AF5E8: do_dotcall
(/users/ripley/R/svn/R-devel/src/main/dotcode.c:640)
==23057==by 0x80CFA84: Rf_eval
(/users/ripley/R/svn/R-devel/src/main/eval.c:399)
==23057==  Address 0x3C7F3BD0 is 4 bytes before a block of size 524 alloc'd
==23057==at 0x3C01CB56: calloc (in
/opt/local/lib/valgrind/vgpreload_memcheck.so)
==23057==by 0x80F9EBE: R_chk_calloc
(/users/ripley/R/svn/R-devel/src/main/memory.c:2151)
==23057==by 0x3CF4E515: ssc_symbolic_permute (Mutils.c:352)
==23057==by 0x3CF5BF75: ssclme_create (ssclme.c:168)
==23057==
==23057== Use of uninitialised value of size 8
==23057==at 0x80C0137: Rf_duplicate
(/users/ripley/R/svn/R-devel/src/main/duplicate.c:160)
==23057==by 0x80BFA85: Rf_duplicate
(/users/ripley/R/svn/R-devel/src/main/duplicate.c:101)
==23057==by 0x80BFEB3: Rf_duplicate
(/users/ripley/R/svn/R-devel/src/main/duplicate.c:154)
==23057==by 0x816ED96: do_subset2_dflt
(/users/ripley/R/svn/R-devel/src/main/subset.c:816)
==23057==
==23057== Conditional jump or move depends on uninitialised value(s)
==23057==at 0x3CF62229: ssclme_fitted (ssclme.c:1587)
==23057==by 0x80AF646: do_dotcall
(/users/ripley/R/svn/R-devel/src/main/dotcode.c:646)
==23057==by 0x80CFA84: Rf_eval
(/users/ripley/R/svn/R-devel/src/main/eval.c:399)
==23057==by 0x80D1D80: do_set
(/users/ripley/R/svn/R-devel/src/main/eval.c:1280)
which is pretty definitive evidence of a problem (possibly 2) in the code.
I strongly recommend valgrind (http://valgrind.kde.org/) if you are using
x86 Linux.  It has found quite a few errors in R and in certain packages
recently.  The only thing to watch is that optimized BLASes will probably
crash it.
You're right.  I had (at least) two thinko's in that code.  The problems 
show up in the lme4 package but the errors in the C code are in the 
Matrix package.  I will upload a repaired version of the Matrix package.

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Re: [R] Spare some CPU cycles for testing lme?

2004-09-14 Thread John Christie
On Sep 13, 2004, at 8:47 PM, Tamas K Papp wrote:
It ran smoothly on my installation.
version
 _
platform powerpc-apple-darwin6.8
arch powerpc
os   darwin6.8
system   powerpc, darwin6.8
status
major1
minor9.1
year 2004
month06
day  21
language R
Typical lines from top (if it helps anything; around 45-50k
iterations):
1225 R.bin   90.7%  2:55:12   162  1164  71.7M+ 13.7M  66.6M+  
228M+
1225 R.bin   78.6%  3:18:27   162  1606  81.3M+ 13.7M  75.5M+  
234M+
I can confirm this.  same installation
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Re: [R] Spare some CPU cycles for testing lme?

2004-09-13 Thread Marc Schwartz
On Mon, 2004-09-13 at 07:40, Frank Samuelson wrote:
 If anyone has a few extra CPU cycles to spare,
 I'd appreciate it if you could verify a problem that I
 have encountered.  Run the code
 below and tell me if it crashes your R before
 completion.
 
 library(lme4)
 data(bdf)
 dump-sapply( 1:5, function(i) {
  fm - lme(langPOST ~ IQ.ver.cen + avg.IQ.ver.cen, data = bdf,
random = ~ IQ.ver.cen | schoolNR);
  cat(  ,i,\r)
  0
 })
 
 The above code simply reruns the example from the
 lme help page a large number of times and returns a bunch
 of 0's, so you'll need to have the lme4 and Matrix
 packages installed.  It might take a while to complete,
 but you can always nice it and let it run.
 
 I'm attempting to bootstrap lme() from the lme4 package,
 but it causes a
 segfault after a couple hundred iterations.  This happens on
 my Linux x86 RedHat 7.3, 8.0, 9.0, FC1 systems w/ 1.9.1
 and devel 2.0.0 (not all possible combinations actually
 tested.)
 I've communicated w/ Douglas Bates about this and he
 doesn't appear to have the problem.
 
 Thanks for any help.
 
 -Frank
 

Replicated here on FC 2 running:

Version 1.9.1 Patched (2004-09-07)

The backtrace from gdb follows. It would probably make sense to move
this thread to r-devel. As you can see, it got through 10,546 runs
before segfaulting.

cc: to Doug.

HTH,

Marc Schwartz


 dump-sapply( 1:5, function(i) {
+  fm - lme(langPOST ~ IQ.ver.cen + avg.IQ.ver.cen, data = bdf,
+random = ~ IQ.ver.cen | schoolNR);
+  cat(  ,i,\r)
+  0
+ })
   10546
Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x00982242 in _int_free () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6
(gdb) bt
#0  0x00982242 in _int_free () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6
#1  0x0098373b in free () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6
#2  0x080c4003 in ReleaseLargeFreeVectors () at memory.c:695
#3  0x080c5999 in RunGenCollect (size_needed=1144) at memory.c:1282
#4  0x080c7084 in R_gc_internal (size_needed=1144) at memory.c:1933
#5  0x080c6b67 in Rf_allocVector (type=16, length=2287) at memory.c:1788
#6  0x0809b6b1 in Rf_duplicate (s=0xbed5d40) at duplicate.c:150
#7  0x0809b335 in Rf_duplicate (s=0xb64a3bc) at duplicate.c:100
#8  0x0809b517 in Rf_duplicate (s=0xbed15a8) at duplicate.c:142
#9  0x0809b777 in Rf_duplicate (s=0xb3f6048) at duplicate.c:137
#10 0x080a796d in EnsureLocal (symbol=0x9719f38, rho=0xb64c2b8) at
eval.c:765
#11 0x080a8691 in evalseq (expr=0x9719f38, rho=0xb64c2b8, forcelocal=1,
tmploc=0xb64a340) at eval.c:1135
#12 0x080a8847 in applydefine (call=0x97f9818, op=0x9705264,
args=0x97f9834, rho=0xb64c2b8) at eval.c:1199
#13 0x080a7055 in Rf_eval (e=0x97f9818, rho=0xb64c2b8) at eval.c:375
#14 0x080a8436 in do_begin (call=0x97f97fc, op=0x9705168,
args=0x97f97e0, rho=0xb64c2b8) at eval.c:1046
#15 0x080a7055 in Rf_eval (e=0x97f97fc, rho=0xb64c2b8) at eval.c:375
#16 0x080a7055 in Rf_eval (e=0x97f9bdc, rho=0xb64c2b8) at eval.c:375
#17 0x080a8436 in do_begin (call=0x97f4ac8, op=0x9705168,
args=0x97f9bc0, rho=0xb64c2b8) at eval.c:1046
#18 0x080a7055 in Rf_eval (e=0x97f4ac8, rho=0xb64c2b8) at eval.c:375
#19 0x080a7301 in Rf_applyClosure (call=0xb64c130, op=0x97f9a8c,
arglist=0xb64c050, rho=0xb65989c,
suppliedenv=0xb64c0f8) at eval.c:566
#20 0x080cd2fb in applyMethod (call=0xb64c130, op=0x97f9a8c,
args=0xb64c050, rho=0xb65989c, newrho=0xb64c0f8)
at objects.c:119
#21 0x080cd985 in Rf_usemethod (generic=0x81a1f2b [, obj=0xb3ebbc0,
call=0x9a668f0, args=0xb64c050,
rho=0xb65989c, callrho=0xb65989c, defrho=0x96f6338, ans=0xfef58728)
at objects.c:326
#22 0x080a994d in Rf_DispatchOrEval (call=0x9a668f0, op=0x9705050,
generic=0x81a1f2b [, args=0xb64bffc,
rho=0xb65989c, ans=0xfef58728, dropmissing=0, argsevald=1) at
eval.c:1719
#23 0x0811d5aa in do_subset (call=0x9a668f0, op=0x9705050,
args=0x9a66944, rho=0xb65989c) at subset.c:504
#24 0x080a7055 in Rf_eval (e=0x9a668f0, rho=0xb65989c) at eval.c:375
#25 0x080a8bc3 in do_set (call=0x9a66880, op=0x9705264, args=0x9a668b8,
rho=0xb65989c) at eval.c:1271
#26 0x080a7055 in Rf_eval (e=0x9a66880, rho=0xb65989c) at eval.c:375
---Type return to continue, or q return to quit---
#27 0x080a8436 in do_begin (call=0x9a67184, op=0x9705168,
args=0x9a66864, rho=0xb65989c) at eval.c:1046
#28 0x080a7055 in Rf_eval (e=0x9a67184, rho=0xb65989c) at eval.c:375
#29 0x080a7055 in Rf_eval (e=0x9a66c44, rho=0xb65989c) at eval.c:375
#30 0x080a8436 in do_begin (call=0x9a66b10, op=0x9705168,
args=0x9a66c28, rho=0xb65989c) at eval.c:1046
#31 0x080a7055 in Rf_eval (e=0x9a66b10, rho=0xb65989c) at eval.c:375
#32 0x080a7301 in Rf_applyClosure (call=0xb659730, op=0x9a67900,
arglist=0xb65a558, rho=0xb65966c,
suppliedenv=0xb6596f8) at eval.c:566
#33 0x080cd2fb in applyMethod (call=0xb659730, op=0x9a67900,
args=0xb65a558, rho=0xb65966c, newrho=0xb6596f8)
at objects.c:119
#34 0x080cd985 in Rf_usemethod (generic=0x9b1f300 model.matrix,
obj=0xb415a64, call=0x9a6783c,
args=0x96f6338, rho=0xb65966c, callrho=0xb415bb4, defrho=0xa038100,

Re: [R] Spare some CPU cycles for testing lme?

2004-09-13 Thread Douglas Bates
Marc Schwartz wrote:
On Mon, 2004-09-13 at 07:40, Frank Samuelson wrote:
If anyone has a few extra CPU cycles to spare,
I'd appreciate it if you could verify a problem that I
have encountered.  Run the code
below and tell me if it crashes your R before
completion.
library(lme4)
data(bdf)
dump-sapply( 1:5, function(i) {
fm - lme(langPOST ~ IQ.ver.cen + avg.IQ.ver.cen, data = bdf,
  random = ~ IQ.ver.cen | schoolNR);
cat(  ,i,\r)
0
})
The above code simply reruns the example from the
lme help page a large number of times and returns a bunch
of 0's, so you'll need to have the lme4 and Matrix
packages installed.  It might take a while to complete,
but you can always nice it and let it run.
I'm attempting to bootstrap lme() from the lme4 package,
but it causes a
segfault after a couple hundred iterations.  This happens on
my Linux x86 RedHat 7.3, 8.0, 9.0, FC1 systems w/ 1.9.1
and devel 2.0.0 (not all possible combinations actually
tested.)
I've communicated w/ Douglas Bates about this and he
doesn't appear to have the problem.
Thanks for any help.
-Frank

Replicated here on FC 2 running:
Version 1.9.1 Patched (2004-09-07)
The backtrace from gdb follows. It would probably make sense to move
this thread to r-devel. As you can see, it got through 10,546 runs
before segfaulting.
cc: to Doug.
HTH,
Marc Schwartz

dump-sapply( 1:5, function(i) {
+  fm - lme(langPOST ~ IQ.ver.cen + avg.IQ.ver.cen, data = bdf,
+random = ~ IQ.ver.cen | schoolNR);
+  cat(  ,i,\r)
+  0
+ })
   10546
Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x00982242 in _int_free () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6
(gdb) bt
#0  0x00982242 in _int_free () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6
#1  0x0098373b in free () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6
#2  0x080c4003 in ReleaseLargeFreeVectors () at memory.c:695
#3  0x080c5999 in RunGenCollect (size_needed=1144) at memory.c:1282
#4  0x080c7084 in R_gc_internal (size_needed=1144) at memory.c:1933
#5  0x080c6b67 in Rf_allocVector (type=16, length=2287) at memory.c:1788
#6  0x0809b6b1 in Rf_duplicate (s=0xbed5d40) at duplicate.c:150
#7  0x0809b335 in Rf_duplicate (s=0xb64a3bc) at duplicate.c:100
#8  0x0809b517 in Rf_duplicate (s=0xbed15a8) at duplicate.c:142
#9  0x0809b777 in Rf_duplicate (s=0xb3f6048) at duplicate.c:137
#10 0x080a796d in EnsureLocal (symbol=0x9719f38, rho=0xb64c2b8) at
eval.c:765
#11 0x080a8691 in evalseq (expr=0x9719f38, rho=0xb64c2b8, forcelocal=1,
tmploc=0xb64a340) at eval.c:1135
#12 0x080a8847 in applydefine (call=0x97f9818, op=0x9705264,
args=0x97f9834, rho=0xb64c2b8) at eval.c:1199
#13 0x080a7055 in Rf_eval (e=0x97f9818, rho=0xb64c2b8) at eval.c:375
#14 0x080a8436 in do_begin (call=0x97f97fc, op=0x9705168,
args=0x97f97e0, rho=0xb64c2b8) at eval.c:1046
#15 0x080a7055 in Rf_eval (e=0x97f97fc, rho=0xb64c2b8) at eval.c:375
#16 0x080a7055 in Rf_eval (e=0x97f9bdc, rho=0xb64c2b8) at eval.c:375
#17 0x080a8436 in do_begin (call=0x97f4ac8, op=0x9705168,
args=0x97f9bc0, rho=0xb64c2b8) at eval.c:1046
#18 0x080a7055 in Rf_eval (e=0x97f4ac8, rho=0xb64c2b8) at eval.c:375
#19 0x080a7301 in Rf_applyClosure (call=0xb64c130, op=0x97f9a8c,
arglist=0xb64c050, rho=0xb65989c,
suppliedenv=0xb64c0f8) at eval.c:566
#20 0x080cd2fb in applyMethod (call=0xb64c130, op=0x97f9a8c,
args=0xb64c050, rho=0xb65989c, newrho=0xb64c0f8)
at objects.c:119
#21 0x080cd985 in Rf_usemethod (generic=0x81a1f2b [, obj=0xb3ebbc0,
call=0x9a668f0, args=0xb64c050,
rho=0xb65989c, callrho=0xb65989c, defrho=0x96f6338, ans=0xfef58728)
at objects.c:326
#22 0x080a994d in Rf_DispatchOrEval (call=0x9a668f0, op=0x9705050,
generic=0x81a1f2b [, args=0xb64bffc,
rho=0xb65989c, ans=0xfef58728, dropmissing=0, argsevald=1) at
eval.c:1719
#23 0x0811d5aa in do_subset (call=0x9a668f0, op=0x9705050,
args=0x9a66944, rho=0xb65989c) at subset.c:504
#24 0x080a7055 in Rf_eval (e=0x9a668f0, rho=0xb65989c) at eval.c:375
#25 0x080a8bc3 in do_set (call=0x9a66880, op=0x9705264, args=0x9a668b8,
rho=0xb65989c) at eval.c:1271
#26 0x080a7055 in Rf_eval (e=0x9a66880, rho=0xb65989c) at eval.c:375
---Type return to continue, or q return to quit---
#27 0x080a8436 in do_begin (call=0x9a67184, op=0x9705168,
args=0x9a66864, rho=0xb65989c) at eval.c:1046
#28 0x080a7055 in Rf_eval (e=0x9a67184, rho=0xb65989c) at eval.c:375
#29 0x080a7055 in Rf_eval (e=0x9a66c44, rho=0xb65989c) at eval.c:375
#30 0x080a8436 in do_begin (call=0x9a66b10, op=0x9705168,
args=0x9a66c28, rho=0xb65989c) at eval.c:1046
#31 0x080a7055 in Rf_eval (e=0x9a66b10, rho=0xb65989c) at eval.c:375
#32 0x080a7301 in Rf_applyClosure (call=0xb659730, op=0x9a67900,
arglist=0xb65a558, rho=0xb65966c,
suppliedenv=0xb6596f8) at eval.c:566
#33 0x080cd2fb in applyMethod (call=0xb659730, op=0x9a67900,
args=0xb65a558, rho=0xb65966c, newrho=0xb6596f8)
at objects.c:119
#34 0x080cd985 in Rf_usemethod (generic=0x9b1f300 model.matrix,
obj=0xb415a64, call=0x9a6783c,
args=0x96f6338, rho=0xb65966c, callrho=0xb415bb4, defrho=0xa038100,
ans=0xfef59288) at objects.c:326
#35 

Re: [R] Spare some CPU cycles for testing lme?

2004-09-13 Thread Tamas K Papp
On Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 08:40:15AM -0400, Frank Samuelson wrote:

 If anyone has a few extra CPU cycles to spare,
 I'd appreciate it if you could verify a problem that I
 have encountered.  Run the code
 below and tell me if it crashes your R before
 completion.
 
 library(lme4)
 data(bdf)
 dump-sapply( 1:5, function(i) {
 fm - lme(langPOST ~ IQ.ver.cen + avg.IQ.ver.cen, data = bdf,
   random = ~ IQ.ver.cen | schoolNR);
 cat(  ,i,\r)
 0
 })

Hi,

It ran smoothly on my installation.

 version  
 _  
platform powerpc-apple-darwin6.8
arch powerpc
os   darwin6.8  
system   powerpc, darwin6.8 
status  
major1  
minor9.1
year 2004   
month06 
day  21 
language R  

Typical lines from top (if it helps anything; around 45-50k
iterations):

1225 R.bin   90.7%  2:55:12   162  1164  71.7M+ 13.7M  66.6M+  228M+
1225 R.bin   78.6%  3:18:27   162  1606  81.3M+ 13.7M  75.5M+  234M+

Best,

Tamas

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