> You likely use a machine with a small amount of memory (32 MB ?) > The 50000 histograms take about 40 MBytes of RAM. If your machine has less > memory, you will do paging all the time. > > On my small laptop, your script via the interpreter takes 4 seconds to execute. Hi Rene, could you give us the reference of your laptop? We'd buy a few of them... It took 12 minutes on this server: lpnp68 ~ free total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 523860 416324 107536 0 114244 81504 -/+ buffers/cache: 220576 303284 Swap: 1076344 0 1076344 (bi PII-450, Mandrake 7.0, root 3.00/06) And 9 minutes on this one: lpnp256 ~ free total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 1028620 970464 58156 148 114048 487908 -/+ buffers/cache: 368508 660112 Swap: 2047976 35532 2012444 (bi PIII-1GHz, Mandrake 8.1, root 3.02/03) Cheers, -- Xavier
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