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I am running rstudio-server on a virtualised (vmware-player) ubuntu machine, and processing lots of data into the ram. I find that after some inactivity that the session suspends the data. The problem is that it takes a VERY long time to resume this session and it is making both the host machine and virtual machine lag very badly.

I just want to kill the session and start a new fresh session of rstudio-server, but so far the only way I have found which does this is to reisub my ubuntu machine. Does anyone know a better solution?

As a side note, I think entering session-timeout-minutes=0 in /etc/rstudio/rsession.conf as per here should fix the problem of the session suspending.

Phil
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Alex
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    Does http://www.rstudio.com/ide/docs/server/management help you? – kmm Mar 12 '13 at 00:57
  • nope :( there is no command to terminate the session. I have also tried all the commands which I think might help from that page, to no avail. – Alex Mar 12 '13 at 01:18
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    I can't answer my own question, but here is this answer: I finally found [this page], which deals with resetting the rstudio-desktop version. In my home directory, I found the folder `~/.rstudio`. I renamed/deleted this folder and this loads a new rstudio-server instance. [this page]: http://support.rstudio.org/help/kb/troubleshooting/resetting-rstudios-state – Alex Mar 12 '13 at 02:28
  • As far as I know you can answer your own question. I have. I suggest you post an answer with the details of your solution. – Mark Miller Mar 12 '13 at 07:48
  • Thanks Mark. I can now, there is a 8 hour limit for new users to answer their own questions. – Alex Mar 12 '13 at 22:30

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I found this page, which deals with resetting the rstudio-desktop version. In my home directory, I found the folder ~/.rstudio. I renamed/deleted this folder and this loads a new rstudio-server instance.

In fact, there is a folder called suspended session in the ~/.rstudio folder, which I suspect is the thing where suspended data is stored, so maybe deleting this folder is sufficient?

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If there is a directory inside ~/.rstudio/sessions/active/, deleting it (in the way like rm -rf ~/.rstudio/sessions/active/session-*) might be sufficient to solve the problem.

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Your question is a while back but after running into this problem a zilion times i found a way to reset the Rstudio Shiny Server session without the need for admin rights on Rstudio Shiny Server:

  • put temporarily as first line in server.r : quit("yes") # FORCE CLOSE OF SESSION server

  • go to the site and it will crash (the session closes straight away)

  • delete or comment out: # quit("yes") # FORCE CLOSE OF SESSION server
  • go to the site and you will have the shiny app with a new session =^)

Works for me and saves a lot of time searching through all kind of system folders or the need to enter a part of the system that you are not allowed to go or needing admin rights on Rstudio Shiny Server.

I hope this helps.

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  • while this looks to be a very useful hack for users running `Shiny` on `shiny-server`, my question is actually about rstudio server edition, not shiny server :) – Alex Jul 15 '16 at 10:23
  • Sorry, i mean running a Shiny app with R studio Server. To get a new session in R studio / R studio server you can just select Restart R in the Session menu (if this is what you mean) – irJvV Jul 15 '16 at 11:42
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I have tried the above solutions which didn't work for me. I tried to kill the rsession which is causing the problem. just run this command to find out pid of user session.
ps -u userid
Find out the pid that is causing the rsession to stall. Kill that process and you're good to go.

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  • For me, `rsession` was not listed in `ps`, I had to use `top` to find it and then get the process ID and `kill` it. – user5359531 Sep 26 '17 at 19:30
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Note that with newer versions of Rstudio, this folder is now under

~/.local/share/rstudio/sessions/

while in some older versions, it can also be seen in ~/.rstudio-desktop, see documentation page

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A quick solution would be to rename ~/.rstudio and reopen the webpage using rstudio url.

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