[Rd] AIX testers needed

[Ei-ji Nakama]

Hi.

system("ulimit") of AIX gives back file block size.
A limit of memory is `ulimit -m'.

I made gcc-4.1.2 and made R-2.5.0+patched, but the problem did not happen.

$ gcc-4.1 -v
Using built-in specs.
Target: powerpc-ibm-aix5.2.0.0
Configured with: ../configure --with-as=/usr/bin/as
--with-ld=/usr/bin/ld --disable-nls --prefix=/usr/local1/gcc-4.1.2
--enable-threads --host=powerpc-ibm-aix5.2.0.0 --program-suffix=-4.1
--with-gmp=/usr/local1 --with-mpfr=/usr/local1
--enable-languages=c,c++,f95
Thread model: aix
gcc version 4.1.2

$ gcc-4.1 -print-multi-lib
.;
pthread;@pthread
ppc64;@maix64
pthread/ppc64;@pthread at maix64

$ export OBJECT_MODE=64
$ ./configure CC="gcc-4.1 -maix64" \
                   F77="gfortran-4.1 -maix64" \
                   CXX="g++-4.1 -maix64" \
                   --enable-BLAS-shlib --without-iconv


2007/5/19, Jason Barnhart <jasoncbarnhart at msn.com>:
> Per the request to test the latest tarball referenced below, I have
> built R on AIX 5.3. There is a memory issue, please see 3) below.
>
>     1) Build with --enable-BLAS-shlib option.  Builds and
>     passes "make check".
>
>     2) GNU libiconv was installed; R configured *without*
> the --without-
>     iconv option. Builds and passes "make check."
>
>     3) Memory issue:
>         a) Although the server possesses 8GB of RAM and
>         system("ulimit") returns "unlimited" as its value, R does not
>         "have enough memory."
>
>         b) This code works on R-2.4.0 on WinXP with 2GB of RAM, but
>         fails on the AIX build.  Example code:
>
>         > xx <- matrix(rep(1e+10,1e7),nrow=1e4,ncol=1e3)
>         > tmp.df <- as.data.frame(cbind(xx,xx,xx))
>         Error: cannot allocate vector of size 228.9 Mb
>         > gc()
>                    used (Mb) gc trigger  (Mb) max used  (Mb)
>         Ncells   233035  6.3     467875  12.5   350000   9.4
>         Vcells 10104141 77.1   31854441 243.1 30104289 229.7
>
>     4) Used gcc-4.1.2; I have not tried the native compiler.
>
> Questions:
>
>     1) Are there suggestions on how to diagnose and resolve the memory
>     issue?  I'm still building my tool chain and I am in the midst of
>     installing gdb.
>
>     2) Regarding the build process itself, is there more documentation
>     or results that I should forward?
>
> Thanks,
> -jason
>
>
> > version               _
> platform       powerpc-ibm-aix5.3.0.0
> arch           powerpc
> os             aix5.3.0.0
> system         powerpc, aix5.3.0.0
> status         RC
> major          2
> minor          5.0
> year           2007
> month          04
> day            22
> svn rev        41276
> language       R
> version.string R version 2.5.0 RC (2007-04-22 r41276)
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Prof Brian Ripley" <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk>
> To: <R-devel at r-project.org>
> Cc: "Sheth, Jagat K" <jagat.k.sheth at citigroup.com>; "kamil
> Marcinkowski" <kamil at ualberta.ca>; "Tiong Lim" <t.lim at auckland.ac.nz>;
> "Eric Harley" <ericctharley at gmail.com>; "Matthew Beason"
> <mbeason at harrahs.com>; <watplatt at us.ibm.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2007 11:27 PM
> Subject: [Rd] AIX testers needed
>
>
> > With much thanks to Ei-ji Nakama, R 2.5.0 alpha supports building on
> > AIX
> > (at least AIX 5.2 on one system).
> >
> > Would anyone able to test this please get the latest tarball from
> >
> > http://cran.r-project.org/src/base-prerelease/R-latest.tar.gz
> >
> > and try installing (after reading the AIX notes in R-admin.html
> > section
> > C.9).
> >
> > In particular it would be very helpful to know if
> >
> > 1) --enable-BLAS-shlib works (it is the default everywhere except
> > AIX and
> > Darwin)
> >
> > 2) if people succeed in installing GNU libiconv and building without
> > needing --without-iconv.
> >
> > I am Cc:ing all the people I tracked down who reported attempted AIX
> > installations in 2006 in the hope that they may still be interested.
> >
> > Please report success and any hints or problems in the R-devel list.
> >
> > --
> > Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
> > Professor of Applied Statistics,  http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
> > University of Oxford,             Tel:  +44 1865 272861 (self)
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> > Oxford OX1 3TG, UK                Fax:  +44 1865 272595
> >
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