[R] R process gets killed spontaneously

[Peng Yu]

I run R in gnome-terminal. Is it what you referred as 'screen session'?

On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 3:01 PM,  <rmailbox at justemail.net> wrote:
> 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.)
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> Eric
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> ----- 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
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> 2009/11/10 Uwe Ligges <ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de>:
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>> Peng Yu wrote:
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>>> 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?
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>> 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.
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> Please see this thread about the necessary information.
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> http://www.mail-archive.com/r-help@r-project.org/msg74804.html
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