One day is a possible period. Happens sometimes depending on your 
configuration and other weird stuff.

W dniu 25.04.2015 o 21:37, Kenneth Heafield pisze:
> Hi,
>
>       Why are you running 100 MERT iterations as opposed to, say, 20?  And
> whether that amount of time is normal depends on how much RAM you have.
>
> Kenneth
>
> On 04/25/2015 03:31 PM, liling tan wrote:
>> Dear Moses devs/users,
>>
>> @Marcin, thanks for the tip on the trie, I'll try out the trie.
>>
>> About the 100 MERT iterations, when i tried to run mert-moses.pl
>> <http://mert-moses.pl> on that target language with 71GB of binarized
>> language model on a 3000 line dev set, it took more than one day to tune
>> using 10 threads.  Is that normal?
>>
>> For a different experiment with a 38GB binarized language model, it took
>> max 4-5 hours to tune with 10 threads on a 3000 lines dev set. (all the
>> phrase-tables and rerodering-tables are binarized)
>>
>> I ran mert-moses.pl <http://mert-moses.pl> with only the model directory
>> and the path to moses.ini.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Liling
>>
>>
>> binarizing like this gives you a lot smaller file:
>>
>> build_binary trie -a 22 -b 8 -q 8 lm.arpa.gz lm.kenlm
>>
>> This uses quantization, in theory that could cause quality loss, but I
>> never saw that happen. Remove "-b 8 -q 8" if you are afraid of that, the
>> file will be larger, but still a lot smaller than what you have. That's
>> about all I do. You said "100 MERT iterations" ... what do you mean by
>> that? Also the LM uses memory mapping in shared memory, so running
>> several moses instances in parallel does not use additional memory due
>> to the LM, similar for the phrase table.
>>
>>
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