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From: "Broman, Karl" <BromanK@cmg.mfldclin.edu>
Date: Fri, 27 Mar 1998 15:23:35 -0600
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I'm running Splus4 on Windows NT, with a 166 Mhz pentium that has 128 Mb
of RAM.  

I have a set of 12 large data sets in my _data directory, each 1-2 Mb.
When I try to start up Splus, it takes forever (meaning far beyond my
patience...more than 10 minutes or so) just to start up.  I haven't
actually seen it start up.

These data sets are in the form of lists of 1000 small matrices.  In my
_data directory, I see three strange files, called sum4.tx_ sum4.txt and
sum4i.txt.  The first two of these are about 6600 kb in size.  

My questions:  what am I doing wrong?  What is Splus doing when it
starts?  It's not trying to read all of that data into RAM, is it?  What
can I do to get Splus for Windows to work in this situation?

I'm used to working in a unix, on handsome sun workstations; in that
environment, I never had such problems.  

Thanks,
karl
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Karl W. Broman
Center for Medical Genetics
Marshfield Medical Research Foundation
1000 N Oak Avenue
Marshfield WI 54449
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Phone: (715) 389-3597
FAX:  (715) 389-5757
email: BromanK@cmg.mfldclin.edu
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