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    • Article Type: Q&A
    • Product: Aleph
    • Product Version: 20

    Question

    What are the best cycle size (loop length) and number-of-processes to use in running Aleph indexing jobs? (The cycle size specified in the $data_root/prof_library. For example: "p_manage_01_loop_length".)

    Answer

    A cycle size of 10% of the number of records to be indexed -- with a maximum of 50000 -- is optimal.

    Thus,
    for 100,000 records ... 10000
    for 200,000 records ... 20000
    for 300,000 records ... 30000
    for 400,000 records ... 40000
    for 500,000 and up ... 50000

    For the manage-01 and manage-02 jobs -- which have a single-threaded step --, the number of processes should be 8 on a small machine and 16 on a large. 16 processes can be used as the number of processes for other jobs.

    Additional Information

    Note 1: if the (number of processes) * (cycle-size) is greater than the number of records, that's not a problem. The extra cycles will just be unused.

    Note 2: Article 000033393 describes the job/function for each prof_library p_manage_nn_loop_length entry ( Loop length recommendations ).

    Category: Background processing (500)


    • Article last edited: 1/15/2015
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