I'd like to have all the attributes in memory (because I assume they are small and I need to search them a lot) but have the data in the tables paged in and out of memory as I need it.
Is that a realistic expectation? Sent from my iPhone On 26 Oct 2010, at 08:23, Francesc Alted <fal...@pytables.org> wrote: > A Monday 25 October 2010 22:16:30 David Briant escrigué: >> I'm wondering if it might be better creating a representation of the >> attributes in memory using dicts. The code I posted takes about a >> second at the moment and I'll need to do lots of lookups by >> attributes and I'll end up with thousands of tables. > > If you are going to repeat similar lookups in time, you may want to > try > fine-tuning the `NODE_CACHE_SLOTS` parameter that sets the maximum > number of unreferenced nodes to be kept in memory. See: > > http://www.pytables.org/docs/manual/apc.html#id364527 > > Cheers, > > -- > Francesc Alted > > --- > --- > --- > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Nokia and AT&T present the 2010 Calling All Innovators-North America > contest > Create new apps & games for the Nokia N8 for consumers in U.S. and > Canada > $10 million total in prizes - $4M cash, 500 devices, nearly $6M in > marketing > Develop with Nokia Qt SDK, Web Runtime, or Java and Publish to Ovi > Store > http://p.sf.net/sfu/nokia-dev2dev > _______________________________________________ > Pytables-users mailing list > Pytables-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pytables-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Nokia and AT&T present the 2010 Calling All Innovators-North America contest Create new apps & games for the Nokia N8 for consumers in U.S. and Canada $10 million total in prizes - $4M cash, 500 devices, nearly $6M in marketing Develop with Nokia Qt SDK, Web Runtime, or Java and Publish to Ovi Store http://p.sf.net/sfu/nokia-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Pytables-users mailing list Pytables-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pytables-users
