Does Sage use some sort of cache or swap space in your home directory when working at the Sage command line?
I keep my home directory on a small USB portable notebook hard drive and when doing timing experiments with large matrices (25 million rational entries on a machine with 8 GB) I get noticeably slower results and see more disk activity through the one light on the drive. If I run Sage as root, so the home directory is on the system disk, performance is more in line with expectations and there's no apparent disk activity on my external drive. If this is the case, is there a configuration or environment variable to control the location of the disk activity? I haven't been able to find anything of the sort. Thanks in advance, Rob --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
