Re: [GeneX-dev] Problem loading cdf file

[Hrishikesh D. <hde...@gm...>]

Lonnnnnnnnngggg Timeeeeeeeeee

Your job is finished. The status is: SUCCESS
Output of the program:

Can't ignore signal CHLD, forcing to default.
Parsing CDF took: 43 wallclock secs (40.81 usr +  0.67 sys = 41.48 CPU)
Found 407536 Reporters, and 407536 Features
Inserting Reporters took: 686 wallclock secs (108.73 usr + 32.71 sys = 
141.44 CPU)
Found 2065 Blank Features
Inserting Features and ArrayDesign took: 1197 wallclock secs (125.51 usr 
+ 57.48 sys = 182.99 CPU)
Finished

Harry Mangalam wrote:
> OK - carefully watching it run on the lappie, typing on another one - 
> this timeimmediately after start, load is staying constant @ ~1.5, 
> but the script is sucking up all the mem (512M) and is now starting 
> to swap like a maniac -.. There goes all the swap, now load is 
> starting to increase to handle all the swapping. OK - now locked up.  
> Final mem usage of the perl script was > 650 MB.  no response left in 
> the keyboard. Had to kill it by powering off the lappie.  thanks be 
> to reiserfs.
>  it looks like to load one of the cdf files you need to have gigs of 
> mem.  I think I'm going to have to try it on my larger system which 
> has 2 GB physical RAM and 4 GB swap.  Letcha know how that goes.
> 
> Hrishi - did you try to load one of the CDF files on one of your 
> systems?  if so did you watch the eventual mem usage?
> 
> On Thursday 09 December 2004 3:07 am, Jason E. Stewart wrote:
> 
>>Harry Mangalam <hj...@ta...> writes:
>>
>>>AFAIK, it wasn't in the loading howto, but I'll check more
>>>carefully.
>>
>>Ah, it was in the HOWTO, but up in the section on loading Array
>>Design's. I've written it so many times I thought I was repeating
>>myself, so I left it out. I think it should be included.
>>
>>
>>>Hmm - so it's loading but it's a 100MB cdf file and it looks like
>>>it has completely socked my lappie.
>>
>>Hmmm.. This is something that seems to happen. Try it again
>>sometime and see if it repeats. I loaded it on genex2 and it
>>loaded. I think it took around 20 minutes
>>
>>
>>>CPU Load is at 20 and it's barely responding anymore - disk light
>>>is on continuously tho - must be swapping like a maniac.  I think
>>>I'll probably have to kill it.
>>
>>I would try it once more. One time I tried to load an ArrayDesign
>>(a GAL file, I think), and it was really taking forever, >~20
>>minutes and GAL files are really short compared to .CDF files. I
>>killed it and restarted it, and it ran in 2 minutes. Dunno why.
>>
>>Cheers,
>>jas.
> 
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