[Swift-user] upgraded to error one

[Mihael Hategan]

This is also one case where swift/coasters should say "walltime
exceeded" instead of "Exit code n".

On Sat, 2009-06-13 at 14:58 -0500, Michael Wilde wrote:
> Erin, if the script never finishes, then thats something you and I 
> should work on outside of the swift-user list, as the problem is in your 
> R program, not in Swift. (Even if it came from the Swift apps CVS tree)
> 
> But when reporting things like this, additional info that is valuable 
> (as well as a few things to try) is:
> 
> - how long did you let it run?  Minutes? longer?
> 
> - did you look at the process using ps while it was running? Was it 
> consuming CPU time, or "frozen", waiting for something?
> 
> - what dataset was it reading? Is that dataset located through some 
> other means? Is the script reading from a file or a database? If a 
> database, can you get to it outside of R, eg with mysql?
> 
> How long is the dataset?  Did you try the program on a tiny fragment of 
> the data?
> 
> I did not look at the script - presumably the answers are in the source 
> code.
> 
> But unless Im missing something from earlier in this thread, this is a 
> topic we should work on off of the swift-user list. (and Im happy to 
> help with it)
> 
> - Mike
> 
> 
> 
> On 6/13/09 3:56 AM, Ben Clifford wrote:
> > On Sat, 13 Jun 2009, Hodgess, Erin wrote:
> > 
> >> It never finishes.
> > 
> > Can you send the entire commandline you used?
> > 
> > based on waht I see from your swiftscript it should be something like
> > 
> > RPermInvoke permutations.R 4 1
> > 
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