It was my guess that the MKE process was in a cycle of sleeping for 3 minutes, then working for 30 seconds, based on my observation of MKE activity when running in interactive mode. I got no output at all for 3 minutes, followed by many lines of output for 30 seconds. Here are some more details.
1. This cycle occurred only after 15 minutes of reasonable processing, i.e. continuous output (on my human time scale). 2. After I removed the "very large set" processing, I used batch processing instead of interactive processing. However, the low processing rate (600 lines/15 min.) compared to Linux (13,000 lines/15 min.) suggests that WinXP is probably putting MKE to sleep for a large fraction of the cycle. 3. Raising MKE priority to "real time" doesn't help. 4. I'm running Interix subsystem (Windows Services for UNIX). I raised the priority of the Interix processes I could identify to "high" or "real time", but I'm not sure I got all the right processes. 5. Memory utilization is almost 100% of physical memory (512 MB). MKE virtual memory is usually in the 100-200 MB ballpark. 6. At one point I turned off all the obvious background processes, including Norton Anti-Virus and ZoneAlarm firewall, and my LAN. (I access the internet through a LAN & router into a DSL modem.) That didn't help. 7. Most of the time CPU is 80 - 98% idle. 8. I obtained my data by running a 2nd shell which I used to "tail" the output file to see which input line was being processed, and "grep -n" the input file to find the line number. I did this every 15 minutes. I occasionally ran WinXP Task Manager to get the other info. which I quoted above. Dick McCullough knowledge := man do identify od existent done; knowledge haspart proposition list; ----- Original Message ----- From: "Federico Balbi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Richard H. McCullough" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Unicon group" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, June 02, 2003 1:24 PM Subject: Re: [Unicon-group] Unicon set size problem > >>> Richard H. McCullough wrote: > > 1. WinXP task manager is a serious problem > > Task manager just shows you which processes are running. > Did you go and check your virtual memory size and if the priority is > given to services instead of applications? That may give and extra boost. > I do not believe that XP sleeps for 3 mins and works for 30.. it is not > the best OS ever but this is kinda too lame even for M$ stuff. > > Federico ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: eBay Get office equipment for less on eBay! http://adfarm.mediaplex.com/ad/ck/711-11697-6916-5 _______________________________________________ Unicon-group mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unicon-group
