Did you take a look at ulimit?

On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 1:44 PM, Raul Miller <[email protected]> wrote:
> For some reason, the OS starts giving me failures when I shell out too many
> times. I never did figure out why, but it might have had something to do
> with memory fragmentation and the large memory footprint of my J process.
>  (I was shelling out to make directories -- now I use fewer of them and I
> make them all before I start J.)
>
> That was ubuntu 12 instead of ubuntu 14, but I've not had the patience to
> go back and see if this intermittent issue has gone away.
>
> Thanks,
>
> --
> Raul
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 8:20 AM, Joe Bogner <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Thanks for sharing... Did you consider shelling out a process for it?
>>
>> If the slowness was due to size and not number of calls, this may suffice:
>>
>> md5 =: 3 : 0
>> FILE=.'/tmp/md5_input.txt'
>> y fwrite FILE
>> > 0{"1 ;: 2!:0 ('md5sum ', FILE)
>> )
>>
>> smoutput md5 ((140*1024) $ '.')
>>
>> It requires the md5sum utility, or some other equivalent. Your approach
>> also requires a step to compile the library. I was just curious to
>> understand your thought process on compiling a md5 library
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 12:40 AM, Raul Miller <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>> > I've updated with these changes.
>> >
>> > Thank you,
>> >
>> > --
>> > Raul
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 12:06 AM, bill lam <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >
>> > > It works ok on linux32.  But for linux64, it needs the following
>> > > patch for gcc apart from -m64 in Makefile
>> > >
>> > >  /* UINT4 defines a four byte word */
>> > > -typedef unsigned long int UINT4;
>> > > +typedef unsigned int UINT4;
>> > >
>> > >    9!:29]1
>> > > -  md5raw=: ((1!:43''),'/libmd5.so MD5String > i *c i')&(15!:0)@(;#)
>> > > +  md5raw=: ((1!:43''),'/libmd5.so MD5String > x *c i')&(15!:0)@(;#)
>> > >
>> > > May be the cc referenced by md5 rfc is very ancient.
>> > >
>> > > Пн, 14 июл 2014, Raul Miller написал(а):
>> > > > I've been using the convert/misc/md5 addon, but it is rather slow.
>> > > >
>> > > > Using it on a 140k string on a moderately sized box was taking
>> between
>> > 6
>> > > > and 7 seconds. And I've got a lot of strings for it to grind through
>> > > (many
>> > > > gigabytes).
>> > > >
>> > > > So I decided I wanted to use compiled code. And, since we don't have
>> a
>> > J
>> > > > compiler (yet), I decided to use C:
>> > > >
>> > > > The first thing I did was look at the source for the md5 on an ubuntu
>> > > > system. That's in coreutils, and it was something of a mess.
>> > > >
>> > > > After backing off from trying to extract the useful parts of that as
>> a
>> > > > shared library, I found that RFC 1321 contains a reference
>> > implementation
>> > > > (which looks like it was the basis for the mess I was trying to work
>> > > > with*). That was clean enough that I could rather easily extract it,
>> > > build
>> > > > it, and get it to work.
>> > > >
>> > > > The result is at https://github.com/rdm/libmd5.so
>> > > >
>> > > > The J test suite (
>> > > https://github.com/rdm/libmd5.so/blob/master/md5test.ijs)
>> > > > was also extracted from RFC 1321, except for a  couple lines which
>> > define
>> > > > the interface to the compiled code).
>> > > >
>> > > > Note that I'm using this with j602 (the 32 bit version), because
>> that's
>> > > the
>> > > > only version where the sax xml parsing works. And, I've only tested
>> it
>> > on
>> > > > ubuntu 14.04 lts. But if someone else needs a fast md5
>> implementation,
>> > > > perhaps it won't be too much work to get this working on whatever
>> > system
>> > > > you work with.
>> > > >
>> > > > FYI,
>> > > >
>> > > > --
>> > > > Raul
>> > > >
>> > > > * P.S. I say "mess" because it has been loaded down with so many
>> layers
>> > > of
>> > > > config toolchain and abstraction that it's really hard to find where
>> > > > anything happens. That's fine for some contexts, but useless for
>> > others.
>> > > >
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