I have 32gb, 8core, macpro, 2tb harddisk. So hardware wise pretty top-end I guess. In my case, we thought it might be a Mac issue. Having said that, we tried the same insert on a Linux box, and it worked. So it might be a Mac issue. Interesting to hear you have very similar problem on non-Mac box...

On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 11:19 AM, dariuszs <dariuszs@svnp.com> wrote:
Hi,
How much memory do you have? Dariusz.


Yue Sheng wrote:
> I have similar problem when loading large dataset. I'm trying to load
> 650million by 10. It gets stuck after ~350million. Interestingly not
> always at the same point...
>
> On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 6:10 AM, dariuszs <dariuszs@svnp.com
> <mailto:dariuszs@svnp.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hi,
>     Can anybody help me with this issue? Thanks. Dariusz.
>
>
>
>     dariuszs wrote:
>     > Hi,
>     > Specs:
>     > MonetDB Server 5.10.0, based on kernel v1.28.0
>     > Windows x64 Server 2003 Enterprise
>     > Intel Dual Xenon 5470 server, SAS drives, 48GB of memory / 220GB
>     swap
>     > space
>     >
>     > CREATE TABLE xxx(
>     > C1 VARCHAR(16),
>     > C2 VARCHAR(15),
>     > C3 VARCHAR(1),
>     > C4 VARCHAR(4),
>     > C5 VARCHAR(1),
>     > C6 VARCHAR(10),
>     > C7 VARCHAR(2),
>     > C8 VARCHAR(1),
>     > C9 VARCHAR(1),
>     > C10 VARCHAR(1),
>     > C11 VARCHAR(1),
>     > C12 VARCHAR(1),
>     > C13 VARCHAR(2),
>     > C14 VARCHAR(1),
>     > C15 VARCHAR(2),
>     > C16 VARCHAR(30),
>     > C17 VARCHAR(16),
>     > C18 VARCHAR(2),
>     > C19 VARCHAR(5),
>     > C20 VARCHAR(4),
>     > C21 VARCHAR(3),
>     > C22 VARCHAR(2),
>     > C23 VARCHAR(1),
>     > C24 VARCHAR(2),
>     > C25 VARCHAR(1),
>     > C26 VARCHAR(2),
>     > C27 VARCHAR(1),
>     > C28 VARCHAR(2),
>     > C29 VARCHAR(3),
>     > C30 VARCHAR(4),
>     > C31 VARCHAR(10),
>     > C32 VARCHAR(1),
>     > C33 VARCHAR(2),
>     > C34 VARCHAR(4),
>     > C35 VARCHAR(1),
>     > C36 VARCHAR(1),
>     > C37 VARCHAR(6),
>     > C38 VARCHAR(6),
>     > C39 VARCHAR(2),
>     > C40 VARCHAR(6),
>     > C41 VARCHAR(1),
>     > C42 VARCHAR(6),
>     > C43 VARCHAR(2),
>     > C44 VARCHAR(1),
>     > C45 VARCHAR(1),
>     > C46 VARCHAR(1),
>     > C47 VARCHAR(1),
>     > C48 VARCHAR(1),
>     > C49 VARCHAR(1),
>     > C50 VARCHAR(1),
>     > C51 VARCHAR(2),
>     > C52 VARCHAR(6),
>     > C53 VARCHAR(2),
>     > C54 VARCHAR(2),
>     > C55 VARCHAR(6),
>     > C56 VARCHAR(2),
>     > C57 VARCHAR(1),
>     > C58 VARCHAR(1),
>     > C59 VARCHAR(1),
>     > C60 VARCHAR(1),
>     > C61 VARCHAR(1),
>     > C62 VARCHAR(1),
>     > C63 VARCHAR(1),
>     > C64 VARCHAR(4),
>     > C65 VARCHAR(1),
>     > C66 VARCHAR(1),
>     > C67 VARCHAR(1),
>     > C68 VARCHAR(3),
>     > C69 VARCHAR(2),
>     > C70 VARCHAR(2),
>     > C71 VARCHAR(1),
>     > C72 VARCHAR(1),
>     > C73 VARCHAR(1),
>     > C74 VARCHAR(1),
>     > C75 VARCHAR(2),
>     > C76 VARCHAR(8),
>     > C77 VARCHAR(8),
>     > C78 VARCHAR(8),
>     > C79 VARCHAR(1),
>     > C80 VARCHAR(1),
>     > C81 VARCHAR(1),
>     > C82 VARCHAR(1),
>     > C83 VARCHAR(6),
>     > C84 VARCHAR(6),
>     > C85 VARCHAR(6),
>     > C86 VARCHAR(1),
>     > C87 VARCHAR(1),
>     > C88 VARCHAR(1),
>     > C89 VARCHAR(1),
>     > C90 VARCHAR(1),
>     > C91 VARCHAR(1),
>     > C92 VARCHAR(1),
>     > C93 VARCHAR(1),
>     > C94 VARCHAR(1),
>     > C95 VARCHAR(1),
>     > C96 VARCHAR(1),
>     > C97 VARCHAR(1),
>     > C98 VARCHAR(1),
>     > C99 VARCHAR(1),
>     > C100 VARCHAR(1),
>     > C101 VARCHAR(1),
>     > C102 VARCHAR(1),
>     > C103 VARCHAR(1),
>     > C104 VARCHAR(4),
>     > C105 VARCHAR(4),
>     > C106 VARCHAR(6),
>     > C107 VARCHAR(8),
>     > C108 VARCHAR(8),
>     > C109 VARCHAR(1),
>     > C110 VARCHAR(1),
>     > C111 VARCHAR(8),
>     > C112 VARCHAR(6),
>     > C113 VARCHAR(1),
>     > C114 VARCHAR(1),
>     > C115 VARCHAR(1),
>     > C116 VARCHAR(1),
>     > C117 VARCHAR(1),
>     > C118 VARCHAR(1),
>     > C119 VARCHAR(1),
>     > C120 VARCHAR(3),
>     > C121 VARCHAR(1),
>     > C122 VARCHAR(1),
>     > C123 VARCHAR(1),
>     > C124 VARCHAR(6),
>     > C125 VARCHAR(6),
>     > C126 VARCHAR(1),
>     > C127 VARCHAR(1),
>     > C128 VARCHAR(1),
>     > C129 VARCHAR(22),
>     > C130 VARCHAR(27));
>     > copy 160000000 records into xxx from 'm:/monetdb_data/xxx.txt';
>     > commit;
>     >
>     > OK, so the server loads the file for about 4 hours and I see CPU
>     > activity, I see memory usage going up (47GB) and down several times,
>     > but then after 4 hours everything sits - also I see that server
>     > creates a files in the sql_logs directory 'log.179' which grew up to
>     > 47GB and then it stopped.
>     >
>     > I was able to successfully load 130 million records using the same
>     > file and the same system in about 3 hours. Thanks. Dariusz.
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     > Stefan Manegold wrote:
>     >> Which version of MonetDB?
>     >> Which OS?
>     >> Which HW arcitecture?
>     >> Which table schema?
>     >> What happens during "sits" (CPU bound, I/O bound, ...)?
>     >> How do you "load"?
>     >>
>     >> Stefan
>     >>
>     >> On Fri, Apr 03, 2009 at 02:40:10PM -0400, dariuszs wrote:
>     >>
>     >>> Hi,
>     >>> I've got a table with 130 fields. When I load 130 million records
>     >>> into that table (about 50G) - it's not a problem, but when I
>     try to
>     >>> load 160 million records (about 60G of data) into it this
>     thing just
>     >>> sits for hours with no error messages.  Can somebody help me?
>     >>> Thanks.  Dariusz.
>     >>>
>     >>>
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