oh alright. I've made it 4 cores. The example config files are aimed at beginners with laptops.
On 01/08/2015 10:35, Marcin Junczys-Dowmunt wrote: > 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 > -- Hieu Hoang Researcher New York University, Abu Dhabi http://www.hoang.co.uk/hieu _______________________________________________ Moses-support mailing list Moses-support@mit.edu http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/moses-support
