Re: Giving more CPU time to a swapping process?

2006-04-06 Thread Bill Moran
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, > > i am just wondering myself: this has nothing to with "copy on write"? > or does that not exist on neither platform? COW is only relevent when a process forks and the OS can make decisions about whether memory can be shared between the two processes. He hasn

Re: Giving more CPU time to a swapping process?

2006-04-06 Thread usleepless
Hello, i am just wondering myself: this has nothing to with "copy on write"? or does that not exist on neither platform? regards, usleep On 4/6/06, Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Karl Ma" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have a python program in freebsd, doing a heavey ind

Re: Giving more CPU time to a swapping process?

2006-04-06 Thread Bill Moran
"Karl Ma" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I have a python program in freebsd, doing a heavey indexing job involving a > mega size array. > > The process is so memory-hungry that it starts swap after the physical RAM > max out. (To be exact, I've lowered the per-process limitation to make thi

Re: Giving more CPU time to a swapping process?

2006-04-06 Thread Chuck Swiger
Karl Ma wrote: The process is so memory-hungry that it starts swap after the physical RAM max out. (To be exact, I've lowered the per-process limitation to make this possible). What did you lower, exactly? If you reduce the max resident datasize needlessly, you're going to make your program s

Re: Giving more CPU time to a swapping process?

2006-04-06 Thread Wojciech Puchar
running for more than a few hours. In Windows XP, which has less per-task resource restriction (I guess?), I did successfully complete the task on the same hardware machine; although it takes more than 30 mins. How can I push up the priority of the whole paging task? How can I this will not spe

Re: Giving more CPU time to a swapping process?

2006-04-06 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 04:43:42PM +0800, Karl Ma wrote: > Hi, > > I have a python program in freebsd, doing a heavey indexing job involving a > mega size array. > > The process is so memory-hungry that it starts swap after the physical RAM > max out. (To be exact, I've lowered the per-process li

Giving more CPU time to a swapping process?

2006-04-06 Thread Karl Ma
Hi, I have a python program in freebsd, doing a heavey indexing job involving a mega size array. The process is so memory-hungry that it starts swap after the physical RAM max out. (To be exact, I've lowered the per-process limitation to make this possible). However, when I use top to monitor th