It sounds like you may be exceeding your machine's physical memory, so the OS is using virtual memory, which can make things quite slow. You can use the 'top' command to watch the process size of ngram-count and make sure you don't get into the situation.
Chris On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 5:59 PM, Sanne Korzec <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi mailing people, > > I have been installing giza, moses and SRILM and am running the supplied > perl scripts. However when I train the language model it takes more than 24 > hours to train the language model! Is this normal or is something going > wrong? I have trained LM before on smaller corpora which never took longer > than 15 minutes to train, so I would like an estimate to rule out other > mistakes (like wrong chipset settings). > > Also, what kind of machine is recommended to train the translation model on > with respect to internal memory etc. > > Regards, > Sanne > > _______________________________________________ > Moses-support mailing list > Moses-support@mit.edu > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/moses-support > _______________________________________________ Moses-support mailing list Moses-support@mit.edu http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/moses-support
