Re: [R] Memory limit on Linux?

2013-08-16 Thread Stackpole, Chris
Greetings, Just a follow up on this problem. I am not sure where the problem lies, but we think it is the users code and/or CRAN plugin that may be the cause. We have been getting pretty familiar with R recently and we can allocate and load large datasets into 10+GB of memory. One of our other

Re: [R] Memory limit on Linux?

2013-08-16 Thread Stackpole, Chris
From: David Winsemius [mailto:dwinsem...@comcast.net] Sent: Friday, August 16, 2013 12:59 PM Subject: Re: [R] Memory limit on Linux? [snip] In short, we don't have a solution yet to this explicit problem You may consider this to be an explicit problem but it doesn't read like something

Re: [R] Memory limit on Linux?

2013-08-14 Thread Stackpole, Chris
From: Kevin E. Thorpe [mailto:kevin.tho...@utoronto.ca] Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2013 2:25 PM Subject: Re: [R] Memory limit on Linux? It appears that at the shell level, the differences are not to blame. It has been a long time, but years ago in HP-UX, we needed to change an actual

Re: [R] Memory limit on Linux?

2013-08-14 Thread Stackpole, Chris
From: Jack Challen [mailto:jack.chal...@ocsl.co.uk] Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2013 10:45 AM Subject: RE: Memory limit on Linux? (I'm replying from a horrific WebMail UI. I've attempted to maintain what I think is sensible quoting. Hopefully it reads ok). [snip] If all users are able to

Re: [R] Memory limit on Linux?

2013-08-13 Thread Stackpole, Chris
From: Kevin E. Thorpe [mailto:kevin.tho...@utoronto.ca] Sent: Monday, August 12, 2013 11:00 AM Subject: Re: [R] Memory limit on Linux? What does ulimit -a report on both of these machines? Greetings, Sorry for the delay. Other fires demanded more attention... For the system in which

[R] Memory limit on Linux?

2013-08-12 Thread Stackpole, Chris
Greetings, I have a user who is running an R program on two different Linux systems. For the most part, they are very similar in terms of hardware and 64bit OS. However, they perform significantly different. Under one box the program uses upwards of 20GB of ram but fluctuates around 15GB of ram