Re: [Pytables-users] Exceeding the recommended maximum number of children

2008-02-04 Thread Francesc Altet
A Monday 04 February 2008, James Philbin escrigué: > Hi, > > > Are you experiencing some catastrophic resource > > consumption with 4096? > > OK, to try and roughly characterize the performance for large numbers > of datasets, I ran the following stress test in c: > > --- hdf5_stress_test.c --- > #

Re: [Pytables-users] Exceeding the recommended maximum number of children

2008-02-04 Thread James Philbin
As a follow up, I tried manually iterating through the dataset: --- hdf5_iterate.c --- #include "hdf5.h" herr_t file_info(hid_t loc_id, const char *name, void *opdata); int main(void) { hid_t file; hid_t dataset; hid_t group; file = H5Fopen("hdf5_stress_test.h5", H5F_ACC_RDONLY, H5P_DEF

Re: [Pytables-users] Exceeding the recommended maximum number of children

2008-02-04 Thread James Philbin
Hi, > Are you experiencing some catastrophic resource > consumption with 4096? OK, to try and roughly characterize the performance for large numbers of datasets, I ran the following stress test in c: --- hdf5_stress_test.c --- #include #include #include "H5LT.h" int main(void) { hid_t file_

Re: [Pytables-users] Exceeding the recommended maximum number of children

2008-02-04 Thread Francesc Altet
A Monday 04 February 2008, Michael Hoffman escrigué: > I also have this experience. And it's not just PyTables--the native > utilities that come with HDF5 can have a lot of trouble dealing with > large numbers of datasets. > > I found that for many uses I could speed things up by using a tree > top

Re: [Pytables-users] Exceeding the recommended maximum number of children

2008-02-04 Thread Michael Hoffman
Francesc Altet wrote: > Hi James, > > A Monday 04 February 2008, James Philbin escrigué: >> Hi, >> >> I'm planning on using pytables for storing data on large image >> datasets (1M+) and while playing around with some code, came across a >> warning saying I had exceeded the maximum number of child

Re: [Pytables-users] Exceeding the recommended maximum number of children

2008-02-04 Thread Francesc Altet
Hi James, A Monday 04 February 2008, James Philbin escrigué: > Hi, > > I'm planning on using pytables for storing data on large image > datasets (1M+) and while playing around with some code, came across a > warning saying I had exceeded the maximum number of children (4096). > My aim is to eventu

[Pytables-users] Exceeding the recommended maximum number of children

2008-02-04 Thread James Philbin
Hi, I'm planning on using pytables for storing data on large image datasets (1M+) and while playing around with some code, came across a warning saying I had exceeded the maximum number of children (4096). My aim is to eventually have one child per image (ie millions of children), so i'm wondering

[Pytables-users] Exceeding the recommended maximum number of children

2008-02-04 Thread James Philbin
Hi, I'm planning on using pytables for storing data on large image datasets (1M+) and while playing around with some code, came across a warning saying I had exceeded the maximum number of children (4096). My aim is to eventually have one child per image (ie millions of children), so i'm wondering