[R] segfault -- address 0x29, cause 'memory not mapped'

[mathias kuhnt]

Dear List,

after a night of calculating, R says goodbye with a segmentation fault.

 *** caught segfault ***
address 0x29, cause 'memory not mapped'

In my functions I subsequently read in network files of about 20KB using
the IGraph package. Admittedly, I read in about 1 million files, in
total 20GB. Still, the function saves the data to the same object and
memory of the prior file should be freed.

The crash occurs after some hours but not at the same time, last time
after having read in 99% of the files. It probably depends on what I did
before I started the function.

Can anybody tell me if these are limitations of the program and I have
to live with it or am I doing something wrong? Is it a general R problem
or rather one of the IGraph package?

Thanks in advance,
Mathias


here the code:
#####################################################
library(igraph)

modnumber<-1200
its<-1000
seriespath<-"/daten/netgen_series/series_m1q2/"
mylim<-200
max<-100
startval<-1


sampledegcorr <- function (model, its, max)
# I suppose it does not matter what I do here but as you see I read in
1000 network files and analyze them
{
    dc<-rep(NA,max)
    for (i in 0:(its-1))
    {
        net<-read.graph(paste(seriespath,model,"/",i,".net", sep =
""),format="pajek")
        net<-simplify(net)
        ndeg <- sapply(V(net),function(x)
mean(degree(net,neighbors(net,x))-1))
        bo<-stats.bin(degree(net),ndeg,breaks=seq(-0.5,max ,1))
        dc<-cbind(dc,bo$stats[2,])
    }
    dck<-as.vector(apply(dc,1,mean, na.rm=T))
    return(cbind(seq(0,max-1,1),dck))
}


dc<-seq(0,max-1,1)
for (i in startval:(modnumber))
# here i start the function above with 1200 different networks
{
    print(paste("calculating model ", i, sep=""))
    dc<-cbind(dc,sampledegcorr(paste("m", i, sep=""),its,mylim)[,2])
    save(dc,file="series_m1q2_dc_results.RData")
}
######################################################

here my specs:

R 3.0.1-3precise
R crashed with SIGSEGV in Rf_StringTrue()
Ubuntu 12.04.1
4 GB RAM