Re: [R] R process gets killed spontaneously

2009-11-10 Thread Uwe Ligges
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

Re: [R] R process gets killed spontaneously

2009-11-10 Thread 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

Re: [R] R process gets killed spontaneously

2009-11-10 Thread rmailbox
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

Re: [R] R process gets killed spontaneously

2009-11-10 Thread Peng Yu
-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

Re: [R] R process gets killed spontaneously

2009-11-10 Thread Cedrick W. Johnson
: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

Re: [R] R process gets killed spontaneously

2009-11-10 Thread rmailbox
: Re: [R] R process gets killed spontaneously I think he was referring to the actual 'screen' command.. but, I digress... Is there any way you can put your commands in a script and execute them from the command line so that you see the actual memory and GC output from R in realtime? I use

[R] R process gets killed spontaneously

2009-11-09 Thread Peng Yu
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? __