Puzzled indeed! I have tried several things
1) I noticed that - I think after installing eclipse - my system 'suddenly' supports zlib. Forcing usage of scid's zlib makes no difference 2) I do transitions from Y,M,S,E,D,R sorting (top default) to E,R sorting (bottom default) and vice versa. The sorting itself works equally well in both directions on both linux and PC. 3) The compaction thereafter is a nightmare on linux (it will take hours, if it ever completes, no matter what sorting has been applied). On windows the compaction after ER sorting is painful in the beginning, but speeds up after a struggle for 2 minutes, to complete in about 4 minutes. 4) Compaction without re-sorting, but after only deleting a few games, goes fine on Linux. 5) Hence, for some reason physically re-ordering the games on linux is a nightmare. Unix aficionados, please check the above as well and report your findings. Some factor of importance must the database size, which is in my case about 3.8 M games (sg3 file size about 418 MB). The same stuff works fine on linux for a database with 800 K games (sg3 ~ 69 MB). Cheers, Joost. Joost 't Hart wrote: > [cvs - Ubuntu Linux] > > Hi, > > Today I noticed that gamefile compaction of my big dbase (after a > re-sort) does not work - in practice. > > Immediate throughput time estimates run into something like 225 minutes > and after 45 minutes of 'crunching' the estimation goes up in line with > the progress. Nothing to be done but to abort this fruitless operation. > > From the system monitor I see that scid receives only 3-4 % of the CPU, > and that it is continuously in sync_page state; that is, waiting for a > disk write operation to complete. > > I copied the database to my windoze box and the same compaction goes in > 3 minutes and a bit, using the 3.7.1 release.. > > I fear that there is something rotten in my Linux build, in the tcl > packages that are being used or even in the kernel. Although the latter > does not seem very likely, since I do not see trouble like this with > other software I use. > > Anyone a clue? > > Cheers, > Joost. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Scid-users mailing list > Scid-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/scid-users > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Scid-users mailing list Scid-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/scid-users
