Re: [Sks-devel] 1.0.5 released

[Yaron M. Minsky]

"sks build" requires that you give the dump files on the command line. 
Would people be in favor of changing it to use a dump directory, as
fastbuild does?

y

On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 18:48, Dan Egli wrote:
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> Yaron M. Minsky wrote:
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> | On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 13:42, Peter Palfrader wrote:
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> |
> |>I have no idea what is slowing it down that badly, but there is plenty
> |>of CPU left, plenty of RAM left and the swap used stays very much
> |>constant (i.e. not trashing) and I don't think that my disks are _that_
> |>slow.
> |
> |
> | You're disks aren't slow, but my algorithm is.
> |
> | I make no attempt to optimize the update algorithm for the fact that if
> | you used fastbuild, your keys are distributed more or less randomly
> | around the disk.  That means you do a LOT of seeking, and seeking is
> | slow.
> |
> 
> 
> If you use fastbuild?? How can you NOT use fastbuild? I did some
> experimentation in a separate dir once. I tried to do sks build vs sks
> fastbuild. It complained that dump was a directory. Well of COURSE it's
> a directory :>
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