RE: [U2] UniVerse and/or AIX caching

2008-10-23 Thread Anthony Youngman
type, and they haven't. They probably didn't see any need for it. Cheers, Wol -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Louie Bergsagel Sent: 23 October 2008 00:31 To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: [U2] UniVerse and/or AIX caching I've heard

RE: [U2] UniVerse and/or AIX caching

2008-10-23 Thread Ron Hutchings
I think you are referring to the Memory files in Information. We experimented with them, briefly, and them returned to using good old disk files. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 09:21:40 +0100 Subject: RE: [U2] UniVerse and/or AIX caching

Re: [U2] UniVerse and/or AIX caching

2008-10-23 Thread Louie Bergsagel
We have some data transfer processes that take about 9 hours, loading data from our production computer to UniVerse databases used for data analysis. We'd like to speed that up, and have used ramdisk for some improvements, but not enough. Also the time taken to display huge sets of data takes too

Re: [U2] UniVerse and/or AIX caching

2008-10-23 Thread Scott Ballinger
You might want to look at the solid state drives (aka MFT) from Doug Dumitru at EasyCo (easyco.com). /Scott Ballinger Pareto Corporation Edmonds WA USA 206 713 6006 On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 10:57 AM, Louie Bergsagel [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: We have some data transfer processes that take about 9

RE: [U2] UniVerse and/or AIX caching

2008-10-23 Thread Hona, David S
October 2008 10:31 AM To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: [U2] UniVerse and/or AIX caching I've heard that UniVerse will cache data, or leave data in memory in case the next request needs it. Is there any way to control how much data gets kept in memory, and for how long? If one has 32

Re: [U2] UniVerse and/or AIX caching

2008-10-23 Thread Louie Bergsagel
Several files, but these are representative: ANALYZE.FILE ALPHA (reads writes) File name .. ALPHA Pathname ... ALPHA File type .. DYNAMIC Hashing Algorithm .. GENERAL No. of groups (modulus) 545607 current ( minimum 337 )

RE: [U2] UniVerse and/or AIX caching

2008-10-23 Thread Hona, David S
empty space/groups? Regards David -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Louie Bergsagel Sent: Friday, 24 October 2008 9:38 AM To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: Re: [U2] UniVerse and/or AIX caching Several files

RE: [U2] UniVerse and/or AIX caching

2008-10-23 Thread Dan Fitzgerald
you're copying the file(s) across? Fibre? 10 Base T? Subject: RE: [U2] UniVerse and/or AIX caching Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 10:43:36 +1100 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Thanks Louis It would probably take hours, but STATS option would be good... Do they really need

[U2] UniVerse and/or AIX caching

2008-10-22 Thread Louie Bergsagel
I've heard that UniVerse will cache data, or leave data in memory in case the next request needs it. Is there any way to control how much data gets kept in memory, and for how long? If one has 32 gigabytes of memory on an AIX machine, is there any way to tell the operating system (or UniVerse) to