[R] Pausing R

[Rainer M Krug]

On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 3:21 PM, Barry Rowlingson
<b.rowlingson at lancaster.ac.uk> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 2:01 PM, Karl Ove Hufthammer <karl at huftis.org> wrote:
>
>> If you start the application using the command line, just press
>> 'Ctrl + Z' to pause/suspend it. Then type 'fg' when you want to
>> resume it.
>
>  If you can't get to the command line where you started R, then you
> can send the process the 'STOP' and 'CONT' signals using the 'kill'
> command. You need to get the process ID (see "man ps" for this) and
> then use "kill -STOP 12345" and "kill -CONT 12345" where 12345 is the
> process ID.

That is how it works - that is ALLY good to know.

>
>  Quite what happens if you are running multiple R threads via the
> multicore package or any of the other multiple process packages... I
> don't know...
>
>  Of course the real answer is to run long processes on a server -
> preferably one with an uninterruptible power supply and a diesel

I agree - that is the best way of doing it (and I am using a cluster),
but if there is none, a simulation, activated in the evenings, and
paused in the mornings, via a cron job, is an interesting thing to
play with.

> generator - or make your process checkpointable so you can kill it and
> restart it again.

Checkpoints - have thought about it for a few times, but dismissed as
beeing to complicated for my cases.

Rainer

>
> Barry
>
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