Hello Barbara,

I have tried the development snapshot you provided. It works well and this
solves my issue.
Thanks for fixing this bug!

Can you tell us when a new version of HDF5 with this fix included will be
released?

Xavier


On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 5:29 PM, Barbara Jones <[email protected]> wrote:

>
>
> Hello Greg and Xavier,
>
> We created a development snapshot with a fix for the h5diff
> performance issue that you reported (described by Elena below).
>
> You can get to the snapshot from either The HDF Group Downloads
> page,
>     http://www.hdfgroup.org/downloads/
>
> or directly from here:
>     http://www.hdfgroup.uiuc.edu/ftp/pub/outgoing/hdf5/snapshots/v18/
>
> Scroll down and you will find the "hdf5-1.8.11-snap0" snapshot files
> containing the fix:
>
> - hdf5-1.8.11-snap0-RELEASE.txt
> - hdf5-1.8.11-snap0.tar.bz2
> - hdf5-1.8.11-snap0.tar.gz
> - hdf5-1.8.11-snap0.tar.md5
> - hdf5-1.8.11-snap0_docs.tar
>
> Please let us know whether or not this resolves the issue for
> you.
>
> Thanks!
> -Barbara
> [email protected]
>
>
> On Thu, 18 Oct 2012, Elena Pourmal wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I would like to give a status update on the h5diff slowness issue.
> >
> > Background: 1.8.6 and earlier versions of h5diff had a bug in the
> attributes comparison. In some cases attributes were not compared at all
> ;-) When the bug was removed in 1.8.7, a performance issue in HDF5 was
> exposed. The performance deficiencies in the h5diff code were also not
> ruled out.
> >
> > We are actively working on the problem, but unfortunately will not be
> able to provide a fix in the upcoming 1.8.10 release. We will inform the
> FORUM as soon as the root(s) of the problem and the possible solutions
> are identified.
> >
> > Thank you!
> >
> > Elena
> >
> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > Elena Pourmal  The HDF Group  http://hdfgroup.org
> > 1800 So. Oak St., Suite 203, Champaign IL 61820
> > 217.531.6112
> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> >
> >
> >
> > On Oct 16, 2012, at 3:44 PM, Jonathan Kim wrote:
> >
> >> Hi Gregory,
> >>
> >> We've identified the issue and put it in the bug tracking system.
> >> We will look into the issue.
> >>
> >> If it's possible to send us your HDF5 file, we'd appreciate.
> >>
> >> Thanks for your input!
> >>
> >> Jonathan
> >>
> >> On 10/16/2012 12:50 PM, Gregory Sjaardema wrote:
> >>> We are also seeing this slowdown.  I did a little looking and some of
> the issue seems to be in H5O_attr_find_opened_attr.  There is a call to
> "num_open_attr = H5F_get_obj_count(loc->file, H5F_OBJ_ATTR | H5F_OBJ_LOCAL,
> FALSE);"
> >>>
> >>> On hdf5 >= 1.8.7, the num_open_attr count keeps increasing on each
> call.  For one particular problem I am running, it returns 21153 at the end
> of execution.  However, in hdf5 < 1.8.7, the num_open_attr is always 0.
> >>>
> >>> Hope this helps track down the issue; h5diff is unusable for us at the
> current time.
> >>>
> >>> --Greg
> >>>
> >>>
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>
>
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