> My co-worker said he read a posting regarding some method of > increasing RAM usage whilst running a utility. > We have an mbx that gives a percentage of transect per > vegetation polygon for the total length of the transect. > The trouble is that it took 2 days just to run 7 polygons. > We both have a 1.5G of RAM and yet it only uses 500 Megs > while running the mbx. That sort of slowness indicates that the programming algorithm is the problem.
Faster CPU, extra RAM, larger swap file, faster hard disk where the swap file is located, and cleanup of temporary files would (in my opinion) make only a small change - the program most likely needs a bit of reworking. You could find that out by some judicious comment remarks (printed onto a spare printer, with a time mark) which should be spread throughout the routines. It would be sensible to limit the # polygons loop to say 2, so that you can finish the test within half a day. Your profgrammer would know what to do. IL Thomas - Perth, Australia GeoSciSoft _______________________________________________ MapInfo-L mailing list [email protected] http://www.directionsmag.com/mailman/listinfo/mapinfo-l
