Hello everyone,

I have a curious problem with slow PRED calculations in tables. The estimations 
are reasonably fast, 471 seconds for 23 iterations. If there is no PRED in any 
tables then NONMEM finishes a moment after the message about elapsed estimation 
time. But if is PRED in a table then it takes an extremely long time to return, 
I waited more than 10 hours before I broke off the run.

If convergence of the algorithm is reasonably fast I get the impression that 
the differential equations are not problematic (it is $DES solved with ADVAN13 
TOL=9). In fact if I restart the run with all $OMEGA to (0 FIXED) - to force 
all ETAs to zero - and do a MAX=0 run then it is quite fast.

I would expect calculating PRED would be simply setting ETA=0 and solving the 
differential equations just once. Am I missing anything in how PRED in a table 
is calculated?

Has anyone seen this kind of thing before? Any advice or tips?

Warm regards,

Douglas Eleveld


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