An SSD will speed everything, but it will not solve the problem of running out of memory. Your guest virtual machine should have the following guest resources over and above the host resources:
1) 64-bit guest operating system 2) 4 GB or more available guest RAM 3) 250 GB or more available free virtual guest hard disk space On 09/23/2013 07:22 AM, Wei JIANG [PT-COM] wrote: > Thank you for your info, Ken. Should it help if I had a large and fast > disk, say a SSD? > > On 9/23/2013 6:48 AM, Kenneth Heafield wrote: >> Hi, >> >> The kernel kills process when it runs out on memory. Run dmesg and you >> will likely see evidence to this effect. As to how much memory you >> need, I don't know for the baseline, but I will say that 32 GB is the >> lowest I've run experiments on in the past couple years. >> >> Kenneth >> >> On 09/22/13 18:35, Wei JIANG [PT-COM] wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> In the last few weeks, I have been playing with the "Baseline", on a >>> Ubuntu virtual machine hosted by Virtualbox on Windows 7 64bit with 8GB >>> RAM and 4-core CPU, and 200G allocated HD space. How, I am stuck in the >>> following places: >>> >>> ~/mosesdecoder/bin/processLexicalTable \ >>> -in train/model/reordering-table.wbe-msd-bidirectional-fe.gz \ >>> -out binarised-model/reordering-table >>> >>> >>> This runs several minutes, and then it starts to draw dots, one by one, >>> before its suddenly exits to the prompt, without any warning. Then I >>> try the following >>> >>> ~/mosesdecoder/bin/moses -f ~/working/mert-work/moses.ini >>> >>> The program runs for quite a while and then declares something like >>> "killed" and exits. >>> >>> I have even tried the binarised-model, with moses.ini modified >>> accoringly, but it exits, warning about missing "reordering-table". >>> >>> I have searched online and it seems that my RAM is too low. Is that so. >>> If so, how much RAM should I have? >>> >>> Kindest, >>> Wei >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Moses-support mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/moses-support >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> Moses-support mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/moses-support >> > _______________________________________________ > Moses-support mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/moses-support _______________________________________________ Moses-support mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/moses-support
