Rstudio not using swap memory

[rramiro]

Hi,

I am running Rstutio in Ubuntu Linux and I am trying to run a process that requires more RAM than I have. I have 32GB and to increase it I was allocating 12GB in swap memory. However, while I can see the swap memory with free -m in terminal, Rstudio does not seem to be using this and crashes soon after the RAM reaches usage 30Gb.

The Rstudio memory usage report shows this:

Does anyone know how can I make it use swap memory?

The way I increased my swap memory was this:

# Swap memory change - linux ubuntu
# following https://www.linuxtechi.com/extend-swap-space-using-swap-file-in-linux/


# check space

free -m

swapon -s

# create 10G swap file
sudo fallocate -l 10G /swap_file

# secure swap file
sudo chmod 600 /swap_file

# enable swap area on file
sudo mkswap /swap_file


# Extend Swap Space
sudo swapon /swap_file

# check space

free -m

swapon -s

Rstudio version
mode
[1] "desktop"

$version
[1] ‘2022.2.3.492’

$long_version
[1] "2022.02.3+492"

$release_name
[1] "Prairie Trillium"

R version
platform x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
arch x86_64
os linux-gnu
system x86_64, linux-gnu
status
major 4
minor 2.1
year 2022
month 06
day 23
svn rev 82513
language R
version.string R version 4.2.1 (2022-06-23)
nickname Funny-Looking Kid

OS version
NAME="Ubuntu"
VERSION="20.04.4 LTS (Focal Fossa)"
ID=ubuntu