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Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2012 20:59:49 +0200
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MRAB wrote:
> On 27/06/2012 18:33, subhabangalore@gmail.com wrote:
>> Dear Group,
>> I am Sri Subhabrata Banerjee writing from India. I am running a small
>> program which exploits around 12 1 to 2 KB .txt files. I am using MS
>> Windows XP Service Pack 3 and Python 2.6 where IDLE is GUI. The text
>> is plain ASCII text. The RAM of the machine is around 2 GB. To run
>> the program the machine is becoming dead slow and it is executing
>> only after several minutes. I am shocked as I have run hugely loaded
>> Statistical Learning stuff only on 516MB RAM on Python using Windows
>> XP only. And that too on a laptop. I am not getting. I discussed the
>> issue with my system administrator and he increased the RAM to 8GB
>> result improved by 30% but not satisfactory speed. May any one
>> suggest me what may be the likely issue?
>>
> Could you post the program here (you say that it's small) so that we
> can see what you're trying to do.
Additionaly, you may want to look at 
http://docs.python.org/library/profile.html
You may spot quite quickly where your program is dying. It's worth the 
try, it's doesn't take long to setup the profile.

JM