[R] on execution time of a function...

[akshay kulkarni]

I do felt a little unsettled by your exhortions on the incongruity of posting this question on an OS-agnostic mailing list...I thought that there might be some issues on how R communicates with the OS...and also that some R packages might rectify the issue(in my experience, I have had a R package for every R issue that I had!)

Anyway, I ran the  same function again and it is executing within limits. Also, I would be using AWS EC2 servers to run my R functions(I am a day trader in india and input some 250 stocks to R functions daily), and I don't think that the issue would persist on Intel Xeon processors and dedicated VMs....

Anyway,thanks for all your concerns tolerating my query on an OS-agnostic mailing list!

AKSHAY M KULKARNI
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From: Loris Bennett <loris.bennett using fu-berlin.de>
Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2018 1:37 PM
To: Jeff Newmiller
Cc: r-help using r-project.org; akshay kulkarni
Subject: Re: [R] on execution time of a function...

Hi Akshay,

In addition to all the things Jeff rightly points out, contention for IO
resources can be an issue.  So if another process was hogging the
bandwidth while your program was attempting to read or write to disk,
that could also have slowed things down.

HTH

Loris

Jeff Newmiller <jdnewmil using dcn.davis.ca.us> writes:

> Wow, you can find almost any explanation on the Internets. That doesn't mean you
> should believe all of them. R does not do anything likely to tweak
> interrupts... if that is your problem then you need to be on an
> operating-system/computer-model-specific forum rather than this OS-agnostic
> mailing list.
>
> It is far more likely that your overall memory usage conditions have changed
> since the last time you ran it... or that you didn't actually record all of the
> things you did last time in your script. (Newbie R users often do things at the
> console without putting them in their scripts.)
>
> I suggest that you run your script one statement at a time and see where your
> problem is. You might also want to make sure that other programs are not using
> up a lot of your memory (which could involve some OS-specific tools or just
> shutting down some other programs.)
>
> On June 12, 2018 7:36:40 PM HST, akshay kulkarni <akshay_e4 using hotmail.com> wrote:
>>I ran  a function in R three days ago and the execution time was about
>>4 minutes. I ran the same function yesterday and the execution time was
>>more than 6:50 minutes(I aborted the function after that time).
>>
>>I read in the Internet that this is possible. I also came to know that
>>software or hardware interrupts are the main reasons.
>>
>>How do you know whether the delay was caused by interrupts? Which
>>hardware or software triggered the interrupts? In general, how to know
>>the exact cause of the delay in execution in R? Are there any packages
>>for these analyses?
>>
>>Very many thanks for your time and effort....
>>
>>yours sincerely,
>>AKSHAY M KULKARNI
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