Hi, I agree with Nick. I am using a 64-core machine. "-threads all" will grind to a still-stand. I am however fine with a few more threads, say 16. Best, Marcin
On 01.08.2015 00:35, Nikolay Bogoychev wrote: > > Hey, > > I have opposed this change in the past for two reasons: > > Using more than 4 threads doesn't help unless the user is using > PhraseDictionaryCompact. See this issue > https://github.com/moses-smt/mosesdecoder/issues/39 in fact on most > machines you rarely want to run moses on all available threads. > > Also - threads all picks up virtual (hyper) threads which are in fact > harmful to performance. > > If you want to change the default I think it would be better to have a > sane default like 4.. It would boost performance for most people and > if you run it on machines with less available cores it would be not > too bad. > > Cheers, > > Nick > > On 31 Jul 2015 7:31 pm, "Hieu Hoang" <hieuho...@gmail.com > <mailto:hieuho...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > good suggestion. Changed: > > https://github.com/moses-smt/mosesdecoder/commit/f894dec0fd8d5b15eb16c35d3d2599338894ee9d > if you have any more suggestions, it's best if you can just me a > patch and I'll check it in > > On 31/07/2015 15:59, Vincent Nguyen wrote: >> >> for inexperienced people like me :) >> Add |--decoder-flags="-threads 4"| is key >> >> if EMS config.basic had "-threads all" by default we would gain A >> LOT of time. >> >> cheers, >> >> Vincent >> >> >> Le 29/07/2015 22:05, Vincent Nguyen a écrit : >>> Hi, >>> >>> I am wondering what tasks of the EMS are really parallelized. >>> I activated the script line + 8 cores. >>> >>> Training / binarizing / Tuning all make only one core to actually work. >>> >>> Am I correct ? >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Moses-support mailing list >>> Moses-support@mit.edu <mailto:Moses-support@mit.edu> >>> http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/moses-support >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Moses-support mailing list >> Moses-support@mit.edu <mailto:Moses-support@mit.edu> >> http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/moses-support > > -- > Hieu Hoang > Researcher > New York University, Abu Dhabi > http://www.hoang.co.uk/hieu > > > _______________________________________________ > Moses-support mailing list > Moses-support@mit.edu <mailto: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 _______________________________________________ Moses-support mailing list Moses-support@mit.edu http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/moses-support
