[Babase] update!

Karl O. Pinc babase@www.eco.princeton.edu
Tue, 12 Oct 2004 21:22:23 -0500


On 2004.10.12 17:31 Stephanie Combes wrote:

> 3.  KARL - Hunter says that he has a pretty fast machine that he can 
> dedicate to us for 3 weeks if you want to use it to run everything.  
> You could access all the same stuff from it; we/you would be the only 
> one using it.  So, we could crank away at conversion on it if you 
> think it will help the process any.  Let me/Hunter know.

At the moment we're only an order of magnitude too slow and you'd be 
suprised
how a little tuning will fix stuff like that.  That's a great option
but let's wait and see.  I'd think we'd know by the end of the week.

The conversion acts like one long user session, and performs like
a user would perform.  I can change this and make it go faster, but
I want it to act like a regular user both to make sure the regular
user will work and so that any time spent improving performance will
improve performance for the system's users.

Karl <kop@meme.com>
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