[R] segfault 'memory not mapped', dual core problem?

[Benilton Carvalho]

I had a similar problem, but with the silhouette() function.

I figured that the function expected that the grouping variable  
started from 1, ie., if for some reason on my obs I didn't have any  
observation on group 1, the function would return me random numbers  
and repeated execution of the code would cause a seg. fault.

My fix was to remap my group variable so that it would always start  
from 1.

Maybe something like this is happening with you?

cheers,
b

On Nov 12, 2006, at 3:05 PM, Barnet Wagman wrote:

> I encountered a segfault running glm() and wonder if it could have
> something to do with the way memory is handled in a dual core system
> (which I just set up).  I'm running R-base-2.4.0-1, installed from the
> SuSE 10.1 x86_64 rpm (obtained from CRAN).   (My processor is an AMD
> Athlon 64 x2 4800+).
>
> The error and traceback are
>
> *** caught segfault ***
> address 0x8001326f2b, cause 'memory not mapped'
>
> Traceback:
>  1: any(is.na(varmu))
>  2: glm.fit(x = X, y = Y, weights = weights, start = start, etastart =
> etastart,     mustart = mustart, offset = offset, family = family,
> control = control,     intercept = attr(mt, "intercept") > 0)
>  3: glm(y ~ x, family = binomial("logit"), data = da)
>  4:  ...
>
> Note that this does NOT happen every time I make this call to glm().
> I'm calling glm() in a loop and it executed correctly many times.
>
> The seqfault occurred while I was running two instances of R (in
> separate Linux processes), so both cores were being utilized.  Free
> memory exceeded the swap memory in use, so I don't think that there  
> was
> a lot of swapping going on.
>
> Any thoughts on what might have caused this to happen - and  how to
> avoid it - would be appreciated.
>
> thanks,
>
> bw
>
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