[R-sig-hpc] Unreproducable crashes of R-instances on cluster running Torque

[Till Francke]

Dear List,
I am a user of a Linux cluster running Torque.
I want to run very "embarassingly parallel" R jobs (no worker interaction,  
no MPI/multicore, just simple replicates of a script with different  
arguments). Whenever I submit more than ~30 of these, I encounter  
problems: Some jobs run fine, others terminate with R-messages on memory  
allocation problems, or even finish without further output, sometimes  
crashing a node of the cluster. Any of these scripts run fine when started  
alone.
My admin suggests this is a memory leak in R, however, I wonder if even  
that would be the case, if this should stall the cluster.
Could anyone give me some advise how to address this, please?

Thanks,

Till


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