Hi Luke, thanks for your answer.
> I can't reproduce the crash on a 16Gb x86_64 linux machine. It gets > over 16G of use and so into paging and seems to be making slow > progress but I killed it at that point to avoid hogging the machine. well if it's platform/compiler specific, I guess I'll see if I can get some help from Simon Urbanek and his mac know-how... > This example will allocate large generic vectors and then allocate > lots of copies of 1 to fill it in. Can you reproduce the problem with > something of coarser granularity, e.g. pasting together vectors of > 1000000 doubles? with vectors, I hit the vector length limit before getting into any trouble. > Otherwise, maybe info from running under gdb might help. here is a backtrace: Program received signal EXC_BAD_ACCESS, Could not access memory. Reason: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS at address: 0x0000000021000011 0x00000001004d9a28 in RunGenCollect (size_needed=1) at ../../../../R. 2.4/src/main/memory.c:1313 1313 PROCESS_NODES(); (gdb) bt #0 0x00000001004d9a28 in RunGenCollect (size_needed=1) at ../../../../R.2.4/src/main/memory.c:1313 #1 0x00000001004de764 in R_gc_internal (size_needed=1) at ../../../../R.2.4/src/main/memory.c:2142 #2 0x00000001004ddf56 in Rf_allocVector (type=14, length=1) at ../../../../R.2.4/src/main/memory.c:1943 #3 0x0000000100489c83 in duplicate1 (s=0x125aaec88) at ../../../../R. 2.4/src/main/duplicate.c:214 #4 0x0000000100489181 in Rf_duplicate (s=0x125aaec88) at ../../../../ R.2.4/src/main/duplicate.c:111 #5 0x00000001004241d9 in ListAnswer (x=0x182008000, recurse=0, data=0x7fff5fbfe010) at ../../../../R.2.4/src/main/bind.c:187 #6 0x000000010042600b in do_c_dflt (call=0x103a47c08, op=0x10300ec68, args=0x103dbf980, env=0x10302e3f8) at ../../../../R. 2.4/src/main/bind.c:752 #7 0x0000000100425df9 in do_c (call=0x103a47c08, op=0x10300ec68, args=0x103a47d90, env=0x10302e3f8) at ../../../../R.2.4/src/main/ bind.c:688 #8 0x00000001004a2952 in Rf_eval (e=0x103a47c08, rho=0x10302e3f8) at ../../../../R.2.4/src/main/eval.c:431 #9 0x00000001004a560c in do_set (call=0x103a42308, op=0x10300bb18, args=0x103a42340, rho=0x10302e3f8) at ../../../../R.2.4/src/main/ eval.c:1357 #10 0x00000001004a2952 in Rf_eval (e=0x103a42308, rho=0x10302e3f8) at ../../../../R.2.4/src/main/eval.c:431 #11 0x00000001004a4aa2 in do_begin (call=0x103a47ea8, op=0x10300b920, args=0x103a422d0, rho=0x10302e3f8) at ../../../../R.2.4/src/main/ eval.c:1107 #12 0x00000001004a2952 in Rf_eval (e=0x103a47ea8, rho=0x10302e3f8) at ../../../../R.2.4/src/main/eval.c:431 #13 0x00000001004a46f8 in do_while (call=0x103a42228, op=0x10300a388, args=0x103a42260, rho=0x10302e3f8) at ../../../../R.2.4/src/main/ eval.c:1037 #14 0x00000001004a2952 in Rf_eval (e=0x103a42228, rho=0x10302e3f8) at ../../../../R.2.4/src/main/eval.c:431 #15 0x00000001004d00c9 in Rf_ReplIteration (rho=0x10302e3f8, savestack=0, browselevel=0, state=0x7fff5fbfe9f0) at ../../../../R. 2.4/src/main/main.c:256 #16 0x00000001004d026c in R_ReplConsole (rho=0x10302e3f8, savestack=0, browselevel=0) at ../../../../R.2.4/src/main/main.c:305 #17 0x00000001004d162a in run_Rmainloop () at ../../../../R.2.4/src/ main/main.c:945 #18 0x00000001004d163f in Rf_mainloop () at ../../../../R.2.4/src/ main/main.c:952 #19 0x0000000100000ddc in main (ac=1, av=0x7fff5fbfeeb0) at ../../../../R.2.4/src/main/Rmain.c:33 best, Simon. ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
