Re: [Pytables-users] recommended hdf5/tables versions

[Tony T. <to...@lo...>]

On 27 May 2010 03:46, Francesc Alted <fa...@py...> wrote:
> A Wednesday 26 May 2010 12:19:20 Francesc Alted escrigué:
>> A Wednesday 26 May 2010 06:21:15 escriguéreu:
>> > Hi Francesc,
>> >
>> > I'm not having any trouble with tables-2.2 and hdf5-1.8.4-patch, but
>> > 2.2rc1 is producing some errors, which I've included below. Should I be
>> > disabling blosc somehow?
>>
>> Damn!  It seems that Mac OSX does not have support for pthreads barriers
>>  :-/ Unfortunately, you cannot disable blosc in PyTables and we should find
>>  a workaround for Mac OSX instead.  Meanwhile, you should be using PyTables
>>  2.1.
>>
>> If anybody here knows about a way to simulate barriers in Mac OSX by using
>> another pthreads weapons supported by Mac OSX (like mutex or condition
>>  vars), I'm all ears!
>
> Ok.  I've implemented a replacement for barriers for Mac OSX:
>
> http://pytables.org/trac/ticket/278
>
> Chris (or other Mac users), could you update your trunk copy and give this a
> try?

It's working fine here:

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PyTables version:  2.2rc2.dev
HDF5 version:      1.8.4-patch1
NumPy version:     1.4.1
Numexpr version:   1.3.1 (not using Intel's VML/MKL)
Zlib version:      1.2.3 (in Python interpreter)
LZO version:       2.03 (Apr 30 2008)
BZIP2 version:     1.0.5 (10-Dec-2007)
Blosc version:     0.9.1.dev (2010-05-26)
Python version:    2.6.5 (r265:79359, Mar 24 2010, 01:32:55)
[GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Inc. build 5493)]
Platform:          darwin-i386
Byte-ordering:     little
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Performing only a light (yet comprehensive) subset of the test suite.
If you want a more complete test, try passing the --heavy flag to this script
(or set the 'heavy' parameter in case you are using tables.test() call).
The whole suite will take more than 2 minutes to complete on a relatively
modern CPU and around 80 MB of main memory.
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Skipping Numeric test suite.
Skipping numarray test suite.
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tables/filters.py:269: ExperimentalFeatureWarning: Blosc filter is
still experimental, so use it with care.  In particular, do not use it
for production purposes yet.  You have been warned!
  ExperimentalFeatureWarning)
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Ran 2949 tests in 53.674s

OK


The 'heavy' suite also passes.

Tony