[Rd] SEXP i/o, .Call(), and garbage collection.
Jeffrey Horner
jeff.horner at vanderbilt.edu
Fri Feb 2 16:00:29 CET 2007
K. B. Udaya wrote:
> Apologies for any obtuseness in the following. We have been working
> on Version 2.0 of the randomSurvivalForest CRAN package and we're
> encountering a perplexing 'memory not mapped' segfault that we believe
> is "influenced" by GC.
[...]
> We are wondering if there is something fundamentally missing in our
> understanding of the interaction between R and C via SEXP objects,
> memory allocation, persistency, and any potential garbage collection
> that may be occurring. Any comments would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Our environment is as follows, though we have seen the same behaviour
> on an SGI Altix system, a Mac OS X (Intel) system, and with R 2.3.0:
If you can run your code on linux (x86, amd64, ppc32, or ppc64), then
consider using valgrind for catching memory access problems. You would
need to recompile R with debugging support (-g) and it would be best to
compile without optimizations (although -O1 seems to be tolerated).
And running R within valgrind is as simple as:
R -d valgrind --vanilla < script.R
or even interactively with:
R -d valgrind
Best,
Jeff
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