[R] R process gets killed spontaneously

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This was happening to me on Red Hat Linux when I was running huge jobs within a screen session. By any chance are your R processes running within a screen session? (screen is a very nice program that will keep your sessions alive after you log out, but it was killing off my big memory jobs for unknown reasons.)

Eric



----- Original message -----
From: "Peng Yu" <pengyu.ut at gmail.com>
To: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 10:23:18 -0600
Subject: Re: [R] R process gets killed spontaneously

2009/11/10 Uwe Ligges <ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de>:
>
>
> Peng Yu wrote:
>>
>> My R process has been killed for a few times, although the system
>> administrator did not do so. It happened when R attempted to allocate
>> a lot of memory. I'm wondering whether R would spontaneously kill
>> itself if it can not allocate enough memory?
>
>
> It does not kill itself. If it was not some out-of-memory kill process of
> your OS, then you may have seen some segfault. We need reproducible code and
> all the details described in the posting guide.

Please see this thread about the necessary information.

http://www.mail-archive.com/r-help@r-project.org/msg74804.html

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