It also depends to some degree on what kind of data it's coverting. For example, in some cases it has to root through the raw mass spec data files to recover retention time info that didn't get passed through Mascot. It's hard to generalize.
Brian On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 7:55 AM, Matthew Chambers < [email protected]> wrote: > > HI Andreas, > > It sounds like it used up all the system memory and started thrashing > the disk (constantly paging things in and out to the swap file) which > slows down any operation tremendously. Quite possibly the parser wasn't > designed for files that big (maybe it's storing something internally > that's taking up too much space?). > > -Matt > > > Andreas Quandt wrote: > > dear list, > > > > i tried to convert a mscot dat file of > 7gb and it took several days. > > hence, i would like to ask if any of you knows how to speed this up? > > > > cheers, > > andreas > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "spctools-discuss" group. 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/spctools-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
