Re: 'Floating point exception'

Bill Yerazunis <[email protected]>
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   Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 10:59:53 -0400
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   Thomas Michael Hagen wrote:
   > i have also had several people using the program at the same time,
   > writing to the same files.
   >   
   That doesn't work.  There's no locking; files written concurrently are 
   likely to be trashed.

Varies with the classifier, but yeah.  Multiple simultaneous
learns are *unsafe*.

We schemed on that quite a bit, but the killer was that statistics
files on NFS servers _cannot_ be safely locked within the NFS
semantics.  You need a higher level server (such as what MySQL Server
does with MySQL files) to be sure.

   Learning writes to the statistics files.  Classifying shouldn't, and I 
   think doesn't, though I don't know for sure.

Classification doesn't.  We specifically made sure of that- in fact,
SVM and Neural both do special dances to make that not be an issue.

    - Bill Yerazunis


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