From the error it appears that you are running MERT on hundreds of thousands of sentences. It generally only needs ~1000 sentences.
2011/5/30 [Intra] Mariusz Hawryłkiewicz <mari...@in-tra.com.pl>: > Hello Moses team! > > I just wanted to ask you if it’s normal for mert to run over 10 days on a > multicore machine (2 processors with 8 cores – AMD Opteron) and 24GB of RAM? > The bilingual corpora is about 400k sentences large, and I am running mert > with the following command: > > > > /moses/install/skrypty/scripts-20110516-1443/training/mert-moses.pl > /moses/korpusy/ERP_test/lowercased/erp.lowercased.en > /moses/korpusy/ERP_test/lowercased/erp.lowercased.pl > /moses/install/moses/moses-cmd/src/moses /moses/install/model/moses.ini > --working-dir /moses/korpusy/ERP_test/tuning/ --rootdir > /moses/install/skrypty/scripts-20110516-1443/ > --mertdir=/moses/install/moses/mert/ --decoder-flags "-v 0 -threads 16" >& > /moses/korpusy/ERP_test/tuning/mert.out & > > > > Over these 10 days mert was able to run just 2 iterations and generated some > moses.ini file with weights, but mert.out file shows that the process wasn’t > finished at all. It ended up suddenly and the last message is: > > > > Translating line 246297 in thread id > > > > Isuppose this is not normal mert behavior.. what am I doing wrong then? > > > > Thanks for any hint on the issue! > > Best regards > > Mariusz > > _______________________________________________ > 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
