[GRASS-user] v.in.ascii slowness in GRASS 6.4.0

[Thomas Adams]

Martin & Hamish,

I believe I know what the problem is (to a degree). I am running GRASS 
in a network environment where GRASS is installed on one machine, my 
user files are on a 2nd, my GRASS database is on a 3rd, and I am logged 
into a 4th (all on Redhat Linux). So, reading my file over the -network- 
must be causing the big slowdown. One week ago we installed a new 
version of RedHat Linux on all of our networked machines (of which there 
are a combination of 10 workstations and ~10 servers); something with 
this new installation did something to slowdown what I was doing 
previously. I can ssh into an independent machine where everything is 
local and my import times are comparable to what Martin got:

$ time v.in.ascii in=xmrg0106200804z.ascii out=test --q

real    0m19.592s
user    0m12.269s
sys     0m3.116s

$ v.info test -t | grep points
points=65000

This is a problem for me because I was dependent on using v.in.ascii for 
automatically processing some data and analyzing it in an operational 
setting. Looks like I have to find a new combination of machines to use 
within my environment.

Thanks for your help!

Tom


Martin Landa wrote:
> 2009/11/4 Hamish <hamish_b at yahoo.com>:
>   
>> how many points in the file? (wc -l filename.txt)
>>     
>
> 65k
>
>   
>> what database backend?
>>     
>
> in my case dbf (as default for 6.x).
>
> Martin
>
>   


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