Dear Alan, Ann and Harry, Many thanks for your inputs on my issues of slow PSPP. I have used the Task Manager as suggested by Alan and found that often there is an alternation between PSPP and System Idle Manager using a high percentage of memory. This happens when PSPP is saying (Not Responding)
My laptop has 4 GB of memory in two main memory slots, according to the product specification sheet. If I can get a chance later I will send a screenshot. Regards, Cecily Ray On Sat, Sep 24, 2016 at 7:47 PM, Harry Thijssen <pspp4wind...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi Cecily > > I don't think PSPP is to slow with big datasets. 500 Mb is not that big. I > just think you are not working with an optimal configuration. > > The tests Alan suggested would have given more info about the problem so > people could give you an advice. May guess at the moment is that you should > use a bigger workspace or have a problem with your tmp files on a slow > disk. The later is unlikely as I expect just 1 disk in your laptop. > > Assuming you have a laptop with at least 4 Gb memory I would recommend > setting your workspace to 500 Mb or more. You can do this in the > syntaxeditor window with: > > set WORKSPACE=524288. > > You can check this with: > > show ALL. > > You find the syntax editor by going in PSPPIRE to the file tab and then > syntax. > > If you could tell the exact file you downloaded for your work people could > try to find out what is going on and help you. It would also be usefull if > you could post what happens if you change your workspace settings as > suggested above. > > Have fun > > > > > <https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pspp-users> Date: Sat, 24 Sep >> 2016 00:08:10 +0530 >> From: Cecily Ray <cecily....@gmail.com> >> To: Alan Mead <ame...@alanmead.org> >> Cc: "pspp-users@gnu.org" <pspp-users@gnu.org> >> Subject: Re: PSPP not working >> Message-ID: >> <CAFeo8o4PCFGNTaOCXf0+4mJ8iTJfUL7yJ0NP-myi1qPWY3zg0w@mail. >> gmail.com> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" >> >> Alan, >> >> Thank you for your helpful replies. I now understand that PSPP works fine >> with smaller datasets than with the large one I am using. I think I will >> have >> to go for a trial version of SPSS. >> >> Cecily >> >> >> >
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