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 [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
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 at 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 > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > >______________________________________________ >R-help at r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see >https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >PLEASE do read the posting guide >http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.-- Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity.
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 at 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 at 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 >> >> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >> >>______________________________________________ >>R-help at r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see >>https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >>PLEASE do read the posting guide >>http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >>and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.-- Dr. Loris Bennett (Mr.) ZEDAT, Freie Universit?t Berlin Email loris.bennett at fu-berlin.de