On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 12:52 PM, <przemol...@poczta.fm> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 11:59:31AM +0100, Chris Angelico wrote: >> There's no guarantee that all of that 256GB is available to you, of course. > > I am the admin of this server - the memory is available for us :-)
Hehe. I mean to any particular application; obviously you're way WAY beyond the 4GB limit of a 32-bit app, though there may be other limits; the main consideration here is contention - whatever Oracle itself is using, your concatenation app can't. >> You'll need to do some serious profiling, though, to ascertain where >> the bottleneck really is. Is it actually slow doing the concatenation, >> or is it taking more time reading/writing the disk? Is it actually all >> just taking time due to RAM usage? Proper string concatenation doesn't >> need a huge amount of CPU. > > I did my homework :-) - the CPU working on concatenation is a bottleneck. Glad you have! So many people don't. Looks like you have a plan there, then! ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list