Hi Simon, thanks for your quick reply.
1) ... so you can reproduce this? 2) Do you know a way how this can be 'foreseen'? We allocate larger matrices in the copula package depending on the user's input dimension. It would be good to tell her/him "Your dimension is quite large. Be aware of killers in your neighborhood"... before the killer attacks. Thanks & cheers, Marius On Wed, May 4, 2016 at 8:54 PM, Simon Urbanek <simon.urba...@r-project.org> wrote: > > On May 4, 2016, at 6:14 PM, Marius Hofert <marius.hof...@uwaterloo.ca> wrote: > >>> Can you elaborate on "leads to R being killed"? You should tell to the >>> killer not to do it again :). >> >> Hi Simon! >> >> Sure, but who do you tell it if you don't know the killer? >> This is all the killer left me with, the 'crime scene' if you like :-) >> >>> m <- matrix(0, 90000, 100000) >> Killed: 9 >> >> My colleague Wayne Oldford also tried it on his Mac machine and >> apparently the killer went further down the hallway to his office >> now... so scary. Here is Wayne's sessionInfo(): >> > > Yes, indeed, scary - since it means someone is killing R which means there is > not much R itself can do about it. In fact from the syslog I see > > May 4 20:48:11 ginaz kernel[0]: low swap: killing pid 56256 (R) > > so it's the kernel's own defense mechanism. The bad thing is that R cannot do > anything about it - the kernel just decides to snipe processes it thinks are > dangerous to the health of the system, and it does so without a warning. > > Cheers, > Simon > ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
