[Babase] Conversion speed & plan

Susan Alberts babase@www.eco.princeton.edu
Tue, 12 Oct 2004 08:24:17 +0300


OK thanks for the update.

Susan

>I've sped up the interpolation algorithm and the conversion
>now runs in (at a big guess) 36 hours.  I'm going to let
>it run overnight and then kill it so it does not slow the
>system down while I work.  The next step is speeding up
>the repstats/cycstats algorithm, which should knock
>another 6 hours off the conversion time.  I can also
>look at tuning the database and that might significatly
>speed things up, or might not.  I'll see about
>finishing with this tomorrow which should leave plenty
>of time to get done with the old/new database comparisons
>by the end of the week.
>
>Randomizing the census rows for
>comparison should be easy, an hour or two, but will take a while to
>run so we probably won't see results on this until
>the end of next week.  We won't want to overlap running this
>with running the conversion program as they'll both
>be slow (alghough we can if we want to.)
>
>Karl <kop@meme.com>
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