Hi Dirk,

no worries, thnx for the feedback!

cheers,
viktor

> On 2 Nov 2019, at 13:58, Viktor Gal <wik...@maeth.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Dirk,
> 
> so the project is open source, you can reproduce the error yourself (but note 
> it’ll take a long time to actually compile it). steps for reproducing:
> git clone https://github.com/shogun-toolbox/shogun.git
> cd shogun
> git checkout feature/shared_ptr
> mkdir build
> cd build
> cmake -DINTERFACE_R=ON ..
> make
> make install
> 
> (it requires tons of dependencies… if you have docker you can docker pull 
> shogun/shogun-dev and run things inside the container)
> 
> the make install part runs the R CMD INSTALL so that’ll cause the problem.
> 
> but i’ve just uploaded the generated R code that causes the problem here, 
> note the script is 7Mb i.e. 175k LoC, so you better wget/curl it:
> http://maeth.com/shogun.R
> 
> cheers,
> viktor
> 
>> On 2 Nov 2019, at 13:52, Dirk Eddelbuettel <e...@debian.org> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> Hi Viktor,
>> 
>> On 2 November 2019 at 13:09, Viktor Gal wrote:
>> | I’m developing an ML library that has R bindings… when installing the 
>> library with R CMD INSTALL the R process is running out of memory (50G+ ram) 
>> when doing:
>> | ** byte-compile and prepare package for lazy loading
>> | 
>> | any ideas how i could debug this part of code, to figure out what is 
>> actually happening and why is there a memory leak?
>> 
>> Easiest for us to help if we can see code -- so if you have a public repo
>> somewhere please the link. 
>> 
>> I suspect you have some sort of recursion or circular dependency
>> somewhere. It would be very hard for R to run out of 50gb. But we cannot say
>> more.
>> 
>> So maybe triage. In a situation like this when a (supposedly complete)
>> package draft of mine fails "top-down" I often re-validate the toolchain
>> "bottom-up" with a minimal package. If that works, keep adding pieces step by
>> step from the 'not-working large package' to the 'small working' package
>> while continuously ensuring that it still builds.
>> 
>> Hope this helps, Dirk
>> 
>> -- 
>> http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org
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