I use PSPP on Windows and found that it's the gui - it slows things down and sometimes crashes.
If you use the command line it will blow the other packages out of the water though. Kees On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 6:00 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Send Pspp-users mailing list submissions to > [email protected] > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pspp-users > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > [email protected] > > You can reach the person managing the list at > [email protected] > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Pspp-users digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Length of wait for frequency calculation (Jennifer Line) > 2. Re: Length of wait for frequency calculation (Ben Pfaff) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2013 14:34:00 +0000 > From: Jennifer Line <[email protected]> > To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > Subject: Length of wait for frequency calculation > Message-ID: > <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > Hi, > > I am new to PSPP and have found the wait is fairly long for the > descriptive statistics > frequencies function, as well as for saving files. > > Can you give me an idea of how long the process should be taking (my file > was approximately 25MB, 27,500 cases, 1,174 variables, and took approx. 15 > mins plus to perform a frequency calc/save)? Is this a bug or a typical > timeframe? > > Many thanks > > Jenny Line > Senior Researcher > Building and Social Housing Foundation > Memorial Square > Coalville > Leicestershire > LE67 3TU > > Telephone: +44 (0)1530 512452 > www.bshf.org<http://www.bshf.org/> > www.worldhabitatawards.org<http://www.worldhabitatawards.org/> > > BSHF: Promoting innovative housing policy and practice > > This email, and any files transmitted with it, is for the exclusive and > confidential use of the addressee(s). BSHF does not accept any legal > responsibility for the content of this email or for the damage caused by > any virus that may have been transmitted with it. Any other use, > distribution, disclosure, copying or reproduction of this email is strictly > prohibited. If you have received this email in error, please notify the > sender immediately and delete the materials from your computer. Thank you. > The Building and Social Housing Foundation is a company limited by > guarantee registered in England. Its company number is 1247918 and the > registered office is at Memorial Square, Coalville, Leicestershire, LE67 > 3TU, United Kingdom. > > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: < > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/pspp-users/attachments/20130226/e3d9553d/attachment.html > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2013 07:34:12 -0800 > From: Ben Pfaff <[email protected]> > To: Jennifer Line <[email protected]> > Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: Length of wait for frequency calculation > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 02:34:00PM +0000, Jennifer Line wrote: > > I am new to PSPP and have found the wait is fairly long for the > > descriptive statistics > frequencies function, as well as for saving > > files. > > > > Can you give me an idea of how long the process should be taking (my > > file was approximately 25MB, 27,500 cases, 1,174 variables, and took > > approx. 15 mins plus to perform a frequency calc/save)? Is this a bug > > or a typical timeframe? > > For that size file, frequencies or a save should only take a few seconds > at most. > > I guess we are talking about the Windows version? We have noticed some > unreasonably slow performance on Windows in some cases. > > Try running "set workspace=100000000." Does that make any difference? > > > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Pspp-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pspp-users > > > End of Pspp-users Digest, Vol 81, Issue 3 > ***************************************** > -- Kees Varekamp *MROffice Director* 3097A Great North Road, 0600, Auckland, New Zealand Phone: +6499743734 Skype: kees.mroffice Web: mro <http://mro-global.com>ffice.org *MROffice - Meeting Market Research Needs*
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