Re: Length of wait for frequency calculation

[Ben Pfaff]

On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 02:34:00PM +0000, Jennifer Line wrote:
> I am new to PSPP and have found the wait is fairly long for the
> descriptive statistics > frequencies function, as well as for saving
> files.
> 
> Can you give me an idea of how long the process should be taking (my
> file was approximately 25MB, 27,500 cases, 1,174 variables, and took
> approx. 15 mins plus to perform a frequency calc/save)? Is this a bug
> or a typical timeframe?

For that size file, frequencies or a save should only take a few seconds
at most.

I guess we are talking about the Windows version?  We have noticed some
unreasonably slow performance on Windows in some cases.

Try running "set workspace=100000000."  Does that make any difference?