Dirk! Correct as usual!
On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 12:33 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel <[email protected]> wrote: > | On Debian wheezy, I have the R packaging that CRAN (you) provide. I > > Not so -- I provide the distro package. Johannes provides the Debian > "backport" build via CRAN, Michael does likewise for Ubuntu. > > | run into a little trouble while trying to fiddle with alternative > | BLAS. > | > | I know you and I went around on this last year and I think perhaps > | I've found something wrong in the framework, or I've just done > | something wrong. > | > | I installed the packages openblas-base and openblas-dev, and they do > | the "update alternatives" thing so that their shared library is at the > | right spot. I can't tell if R runs any faster, but it does run, which > | is encouraging. > | > | Now here's the problem I see. Using Rprof causes R to crash, but only > | when openblas stuff is in the picture. I wondered what you think? > | Here's the evidence you are right. Before starting R, restrict openblas's use of threads in the environment $ export GOTO_NUM_THREADS=1 After that, HAPPY profiling in R! pj -- Paul E. Johnson Professor, Political Science Assoc. Director 1541 Lilac Lane, Room 504 Center for Research Methods University of Kansas University of Kansas http://pj.freefaculty.org http://quant.ku.edu _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Debian mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian
