[R] Mediation analysis takes up all RAM, then all swap, and then RStudio/terminal suddenly closes
Phillips Rogfield
thebudget72 @end|ng |rom gm@||@com
Wed Jun 23 17:01:45 CEST 2021
Hello Bert,
thank you for your kinds answer.
No I didn't contact the maintainer of the package first, that's my fault :)
I have come to the conclusion that the problem is that I don't have
enough resources on my PC (RAM) for the task at hand.
I have tried to run it on a remote VM with more RAM and seems to work.
Best regards
On 22/06/2021 17:50, Bert Gunter wrote:
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> On Tue, Jun 22, 2021 at 8:38 AM Philips Roger <thebudget72 using gmail.com
> <mailto:thebudget72 using gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> I am using the mediation
> <https://cran.r-project.org/package=mediation
> <https://cran.r-project.org/package=mediation>>
> package to run a mediation analysis.
>
> But when I call the `mediate` function, R eats up all RAM, then it
> eats
> up all swap, and then RStudio suddenly closes.
>
> The same happens if I call `Rscript` from the terminal, and the
> terminal
> suddenly closes.
>
> Here is measures for RAM and swap. Notice the peaks:
>
> RAM diagnostics
>
> I have Fedora Worstation 24.
>
> This happens BOTH with the R 4.0.5 that uses Open BLAS provided in
> the
> Fedora repository, and a custom R 4.1.0 I compiled from source linked
> against Intel MKL.
>
> It doesn't seem to happen every time, some times (rarely), the RAM
> stays
> constant (around 40/50%) and it works (it takes a long time through).
>
> What is the cause of this? How can I debug?
>
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