> You likely use a machine with a small amount of memory (32 MB ?)
> The 50000 histograms take about 40 MBytes of RAM. If your machine has less
> memory, you will do paging all the time.
>
> On my small laptop, your script via the interpreter takes 4 seconds to execute.
Hi Rene, could you give us the reference of your laptop? We'd buy a few
of them...
It took 12 minutes on this server:
lpnp68 ~ free
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 523860 416324 107536 0 114244 81504
-/+ buffers/cache: 220576 303284
Swap: 1076344 0 1076344
(bi PII-450, Mandrake 7.0, root 3.00/06)
And 9 minutes on this one:
lpnp256 ~ free
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 1028620 970464 58156 148 114048 487908
-/+ buffers/cache: 368508 660112
Swap: 2047976 35532 2012444
(bi PIII-1GHz, Mandrake 8.1, root 3.02/03)
Cheers,
--
Xavier
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