Speed up calc times for compley member formulae
Hello together,
I am seeking to speed up calc time for one of the steps in a business rule. Besides the required dimensions (+ currency), the application includes custom dimensions for cost centre, products and distribution channel. The members for the currency dimension include EUR, GBP, USD, ..., Curnone (currency not relevant).
FIX (
FY12,
"Forecast",
"Final",
@LEVMBRS("Cost Centre",0),
@LEVMBRS("Products",0),
@LEVMBRS("Currency,0),
"Distribution Channel",
SET FRMLBOTTOMUP OFF;
"500400";
"500600";
SET FRMLBOTTOMUP ON;
ENDFIX
The member formula are:
500400 = 500000 * 400000
500600 = 500000 * 600000 -> Curnone
The accounts 400000, 500000 and 600000 are calculated themselves from member formulas including complex crossrefs. In order to speed things up, I tried to fix on the source and push the result onto the target account:
"500000"("500400" = "500000" * "400000")
which seems to speed up things considerably (I kept the setting FRMLBOTTOMUP ON). However, I'm not sure how to go about it for the second formula (the crossref is making it difficult). Does anybody have any advice? thanx in advance
Florian
Edited by: 943380 on 21.08.2012 01:56
I am sorry re my comment of "A + B" calculations as they are, uh, obviously not. Sometimes I wonder about my eyes, other days it's my brain that is in question, and then yet other days it's both...
Okay, so with that out of the way, let me ask if you must calculate everything all at once? Per your (hopefully closely read this time) comment, I am guessing this is for a Planning application. If so, is this a calculation that could be fired from a form, using that form's dimensionality? If it is, its scope could be limited and thus appear to be quicker.
Failing that, yes, CALCPARALLEL can help, but is probably not a great idea within the context of planner-initiated calcs as it will chew up CPUs even faster than single-threaded calcs.
Regards,
Cameron Lackpour
Edited by: CL on Aug 21, 2012 8:39 AM
I was just going through the tabs in my browser and I found the OP's post (I am sort of lazy when it comes to closing tabs). The OP's OP did have +'s instead of *'s. I thought I was losing what little sanity I have left.
https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B_qdhXKUMwSdTEFVcU1uSUlMWkk
I can't tell you how happy this makes me. :) Sometimes I wonder about my advancing years, but this time I wasn't totally bonkers.
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User Dustin destroyed. 7
User Dustin destroyed. 7
INSIDE METHOD: false
INSIDE METHOD: false
USER QUEUE: true
INSIDE METHOD: false
INSIDE METHOD: false
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User Joe destroyed. 9
User Dustin destroyed. 9
User Dustin destroyed. 9
User Dustin destroyed. 9
User Dustin destroyed. 9
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INSIDE METHOD: false
USER QUEUE: true
INSIDE METHOD: false
INSIDE METHOD: false
INSIDE METHOD: true
INSIDE METHOD: false
USER QUEUE: true
INSIDE METHOD: false
INSIDE METHOD: false
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That number should incremement for every instantiated User, and finalize can only be called once for each User object.
I thought this was impossible?
Any help is appreciated!Thanks...
I am already thinking of ideas to limit the number of threads.
Unfortunately there are two threads of execution in the servlet handler, one handles requests and the other parses the collection of User objects to check for out of date timestamps, and then eliminates them if they are out of date.
The collection parsing thread is currently a javax.swing.Timer thread (Bad design I know...) so I believe that I can routinely check for timestamps in another way and fix that problem.
Just found out too that Tomcat was throwing me a ConcurrentModificationException as well, which may help explain the slew of mysterious behavior from my servlet!
The Timer thread has to go. I got to think of a better way to routinely weed out User objects from the collection.
Or perhaps, maybe I can attempt to make it thread safe???
Eg. make my User collection volatile?
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Basically I want to do what I can do with a piece of paper - write down the time for when I will be there, and have it viewable when I am there, but also be able to put down new times while there.Hi.
Regarding your question about reverting back- yes, I think you can. If you make a backup of your current configuration in Server Admin (by dragging the configuration file to your desktop- cool, no?) then you can load that one back in should your configuration not work. If you have the manual from Apple it should describe this process.
Network speed post-op? I don't think you will need to worry. Even using home directories stored on our OS X Server there is no network slowdown (that you can notice or that impacts the wider LAN in any case). It shouldn't slow down access to files, applications (which still come from the local drive anyway) or individual internet connections (even with filtering).
In our experience some of these things have actually got faster- but a lot of that is user perception. Same goes for people who will know you have configured the server and that they are now accessing files through your network from the server, and who really think it is slower. File coming from your local hard drive will always be quicker- but network access isn't that bad that it will make you barf and run in the opposite direction.
Something to look at: connection speed between clients and switching technology in your office. In other words, what kinds of switches are you using, what line speed have you got (100MB/s?) and is the connection from your server to the switch gigabit? Make sure it is.
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Paul
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Hello.
Is there one length of time for formatting a hard drive with one pass of Zero Out Data? For instance, does the length of time change depending if you format with zeros using USB2, FW400, FW800, or eSATA?
*My Format Setup*
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FW800 Cable
GUID Partition Table
Mac OS Extended (Journaled)
Zero Out Data (One Pass)
I'm formatting with a FW800 connection. Disk Utility has said it will take 1.5 hours for about 3.5 hours now. The blue bar has progressed even though the time remaining is incorrect. At this rate, it will take seven hours to format 500GB.
I'm going to be formatting multiple 500GB and 1TB drives, and I'm wondering if the time I'm experiencing is normal. Therefore, it should take a day to format 1TB with one pass of zeros. Is this correct?
Thank you for your help! =)
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