[R] Running two R instances at the same time

2009-09-05 Thread Peter Juhasz
Dear R experts, please excuse me for writing to the mailing list without subscribing. I have a somewhat urgent problem that relates to R. I have to process large amounts of data with R - I'm in an international collaboration and the data processing protocol is fixed, that is a specific set of R

Re: [R] Running two R instances at the same time

2009-09-05 Thread Jim Holtman
if I look at your output, the single thread is using almost 100% of the two cpus (3:49 real, 5:49 user or something close to that). for the two thread case it is close to the same with the user now something like 6:15. I would like to see what the contribution of each of the processes

Re: [R] Running two R instances at the same time

2009-09-05 Thread Mario Valle
Why instead you don't explore packages 'multicore' or 'snow+showfall (using sockets)'? Ciao! mario Peter Juhasz wrote: Dear R experts, please excuse me for writing to the mailing list without subscribing. I have a somewhat urgent problem that relates to R. I have to process