Need help installing and using PSPP software

Hello: I am a student at Purdue university Global and I need help downloading and installing the PSPP software program, can you please assist. Mr. Jerry W. Bolden Sent from Mail for Windows 10

Re: Need help installing and using PSPP software

Hi Jerry, you can find the download information here: https://www.gnu.org/software/pspp/get.html Regards Friedrich > Am 04.12.2019 um 07:44 schrieb Jerry W. Bolden : > > Hello: > I am a student at Purdue university Global and I need help downloadi

Excessive file system usage

We just moved Pspp to Kubernetes containers where we use it to extract csvs from sav files. The sav files are about 1gb and each csv is about 150mb. We’ve watched the file system as it does it and over 7gb of the file system is used while writing 150mb. I assume the SAVE command is doing lots of

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Wow, that's a lot. Do you mean that 7GB of space are needed (for, I guess temporary files)? And you did not observe that previously? Maybe the devs are familiar with kubernetes; I only know the name. Can you describe the environment (e.g., OS)? And pspp version? How many conversions have you obser

Re: Excessive file system usage

Hi Alan, Sorry, yes I forgot to mention this is linux, Debian GNU/Linux 9 Linux e1e6db1d8408 4.9.184-linuxkit #1 SMP Tue Jul 2 22:58:16 UTC 2019 x86_64 GNU/Linux I’ve reproduced this behavior in kubernetes and outside kubernetes in a raw docker container so its not kubernetes specific but may b

Re: Excessive file system usage

That *is* higher than I would expect. Do you see less disk activity if you use the "pspp-convert" program? It does not have the exact feature you want (in particular the /CELLS=LABELS part) but it is better optimized in general for that particular task. On Wed, Dec 4, 2019 at 4:42 AM Dave Trollop

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I'm curious to see what the devs say. I think they use Debian, but I don't know about docker. So is the excessive disk space used and then returned and when pspp is done, so only 150MB are consumed? Or is it that many GB of storage seem to disappear (so maybe the file shows a CSV file size of 150M

Re: Excessive file system usage

Alternatively, you could hack up a small perl program, using the pspp.pm module to read the file and write it out however you wish. That would also be far more optimal that using pspp to do the task. On Wed, Dec 04, 2019 at 09:09:34AM -0800, Ben Pfaff wrote: That *is* higher than I would ex

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I will give that a try and see how the behavior is - if its better, maybe adding the /CELLS=LABEL is a feature that can be added. Watch this space! Cheers Dave On Dec 4, 2019, 11:09 AM -0600, Ben Pfaff , wrote: > That *is* higher than I would expect. > > Do you see less disk activity if you use th

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Once the conversion is complete the space is returned so its not a long term problem - only during the conversion. This became an issue because in kubernetes you control your resources much more tightly and that’s why this was highlighted. I’m not sure there is anything special about the SAV fi

Re: Excessive file system usage

I can confirm this same behavior exists on non docker environments. I went back to my trusty dev vm running in virtual box and see the same behavior. Here is the config of the vm: deploy@app1[local]:~$ uname -a Linux app1 4.4.0-169-generic #198-Ubuntu SMP Tue Nov 12 10:38:00 UTC 2019 x86_64 x86