On 05/05/2016 10:11, Uwe Ligges wrote: > Actually this also happens under Linux and I had my R processes killed > more than once (and much worse also other processes so that we had to > reboot a server, essentially).
I found that setting RLIMIT_AS [1] works very well on Linux. But this requires that you cap memory to some fixed value. > library(RAppArmor) > rlimit_as(1e9) > rnorm(1e9) Error: cannot allocate vector of size 7.5 Gb The RAppArmor package has many other utilities to protect your server such from a mis-behaving process such as limiting cpu time (RLIMIT_CPU), fork bombs (RLIMIT_NPROC) and file sizes (RLIMIT_FSIZE). [1] http://linux.die.net/man/2/getrlimit ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
