hi brian,

this might be an explanation. i use network shares in the process but they
should not be a bottleneck. i will investigate a little bit and see if i am
wrong.

many thanks :-)
andreas

On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 5:19 PM, Brian Pratt <[email protected]>wrote:

> I think if you look in the mgf files you'll notice there's no retention
> time info, so  Mascot2XML seeks out the corresponding mzXML files (that's
> the raw data I mentioned) and pulls it from there instead.  This can
> increase the amount of disk IO, which can slow things down.
>
> Other possibilities are things like you have some files (the database?)
> accessed on a network share, etc.
>
> Brian
>
> On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 8:14 AM, Andreas Quandt 
> <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> hi brian,
>>
>> i did not use RAW files but mgf files. hence, i am not very sure what you
>> mean...
>>
>> the converter execution looked like this:
>>
>> /usr/local/apps/tpp/bin/Mascot2XML
>> /IMSB/results/workflow/188/mascot_createAscFile/125380469701.dat
>> -D/IMSB/data/databases/swissprot_57.7/sp_9606.fasta -E trypsin -Ip
>>
>>
>> cheers,
>> andreas
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 5:01 PM, Brian Pratt 
>> <[email protected]>wrote:
>>
>>> 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
>>>>
>>>>
>>
>>
>>
>
> >
>

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