Re^3: Processing ~1 Trillion records

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You seem to be accumulating lots of data in the hashes, are you sure it all fits in memory? As soon as you force the computer to swap memory pages to disk, the processing time grows insanely!

It might help to tie the hashes to a DBM file (DB_File, MLDBM, ...) or use a SQLite or some other database to hold the temporary data. Doing as much work as you can upfront in the Oracle database would most probably be even though. Sometimes a use DB_File;tie %data, 'DB_File', 'filename.db'; is all you need to change something from unacceptably slow to just fine.

Jenda
Enoch was right!
Enjoy the last years of Rome.

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Re^4: Processing ~1 Trillion records by aossama (Acolyte) on Oct 25, 2012 at 12:36 UTC
Is this like using Redis to store/retrieve the key-value?	[reply]
Re^5: Processing ~1 Trillion records by Jenda (Abbot) on Oct 25, 2012 at 13:37 UTC
Yes. You can use Redis itself, seems it does have a Perl binding. The whole point is to make sure the process fits in memory and the data that had to be moved to the disk is accessed/updated efficiently. Jenda Enoch was right! Enjoy the last years of Rome.	[reply]

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