Hi Bob,

Brian mentioned something that brought stalled applications to mind. Sometimes 
a virus scanner can halt the application at its start without warning you, 
leaving it in limbo indefinitely. If you are using a virus scanner, you can try 
disabling it to see if it solves the problem. If so, then create a rule that 
allows comet to run.

Cheers,

Mike

 

From: [email protected] 
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Brian Hampton
Sent: Monday, March 21, 2016 3:39 PM
To: spctools-discuss
Subject: Re: [spctools-discuss] Comet search performance issue

 

Hello Bob,

Go to Task Manager and look at Processes to see if comet is still actually 
running.  If so look at Performance and see if it is using the number of 
threads that you specified in the parameter file.  This might give a clue as to 
why it is taking so long, for example if you somehow told it to use only one 
thread.  Did you specify an enzyme or no enzyme search? The latter will take a 
long time.  Might help if you posted your comet parameters file.

Also, I have found that running TPP processes from the command line produces 
useful output to help debug problems.  You can "cheat" and run it via Petunia, 
then copy paste the command from there to a cmd window and watch the output.  
Sometimes you will receive errors or warnings that will give you a clue as to 
what is happening.  You might also try generating a new comet params file and 
then editing it to suit your conditions.

WRT   msconvert, I usually just do peak picking on those MS levels where you 
have profile data and leave rest to defaults.  I am not certain what msconvert 
does with profile data by default so I specify that parameter.  It would be 
nice if others would share their msconvert parameters.

 

Brian








Brian Hampton
Protein Analysis Lab
Center for Vascular and Inflammatory Diseases
University of Maryland School of Medicine
655 West Baltimore Street BRB 7-018
Baltimore  MD  21201
V: 410-706-8207

 

On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 5:11 PM, <[email protected]> wrote:

Hi everyone,

 

I started a Comet search in TPP three days ago and it is still going three days 
later. I must have messed up something without knowing because TPP did not 
generate any error message. Did anyone else have similar experience? Please see 
my system and TPP info below.

 

HP Z600 Workstation

Windows 7 Professional

Processor: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5640 @ 2.67GHz 2.66 GHz

Installed memory (RAM): 24.0 GB

System type: 64-bit Operating System

 

TPP v4.8.0 PHILAE, Build 201411201551-6764 (mingw-i686)

 

Comet search

 

mzXML input file: mydata.mzXML (110 MB)

                  generated using command line msconvert

                  C:/Inetpub/tpp-bin/msconvert mydata.raw --mzXML --filter 
"mslevel 2" --filter "threshold count 100 most-intense"

                  

Comet Parameters file: comet.params (default, came with TPP installation)

Sequence database: human_uniprot_sprot.fasta

 

Any advice/pointer is greatly appreciated.

 

Thanks,

 

Bob Xiong

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