bam (mgcv) not using the specified number of cores

Hi Simon,

Thanks for the reply.  I've tried to reproduce the error, but I don't 
know how to show output from `top` any other way than to attach 
screenshots, so please excuse that.

I'm attaching screenshots of what happens when I run with two and three 
cores.  In the former, it seems to be working on one core, and in the 
latter, it appears to be working on three.  When reproducing the error, 
I'm getting odd behavior that isn't entirely consistent -- sometimes it 
"behaves" and operates on the asked-for number of cores, and other times 
not.

I'm also attaching a screenshot showing terminal output from a remote 
cluster when I run my full model (N=67K) rather than a subset (N=7K) -- 
I get that error "Error in qr.qty(qrx, f) : right-hand side should have 
60650 not 118451 rows ..."  I suppose this is a memory overload 
problem?  Any suggestions on how to get bam to not call for more memory 
than the node has available would be welcome, though I suspect that is a 
supercomputing problem rather than a R problem.

Thanks,
Andrew

sessionInfo() for local machine:
1> sessionInfo()
R version 3.0.2 (2013-09-25)
Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)

locale:
  [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NUMERIC=C
  [3] LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8        LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8
  [5] LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8    LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8
  [7] LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NAME=C
  [9] LC_ADDRESS=C               LC_TELEPHONE=C
[11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C

attached base packages:
[1] parallel  stats     graphics  grDevices utils datasets  methods
[8] base

other attached packages:
[1] mgcv_1.7-26  nlme_3.1-111

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] grid_3.0.2      lattice_0.20-23 Matrix_1.1-4
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