How can you make idle processors pick up java work?

[qwertmonkey]

From: "qwertmonkey" <qwertmonkey@1:261/38.remove-dpk-this>

From: (e-mail address removed)

Use multiple threads?

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a) I need to actually scan large text files (10+ million lines).
b) On each line there is a NL sentence.
c) That processing should be run only once, but as fast as possible.
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d) If you go:
d.1) int iPrx = Runtime.getRuntime().availableProcessors();
d.2) count all lines
d.3) split the file in (total lines)/iPrx
d.4) then run iPrx threads (or executable instances using a batch script)
the time you waste on d.2) and d.3) will make all that strat senseless
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I have no way to influence how those large files are generated
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e) because of the large sizes of the files you can't even go
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FIS = new FileInputStream(IFl);
FileChannel IFlChnl = FIS.getChannel();
int iChnlSz = (int)IFlChnl.size();
MappedByteBuffer MptBytBfr = IFlChnl.map(FileChannel.MapMode.READ_ONLY, 0,
iChnlSz);
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so, apparently, the only option I have is:
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BfR = Files.newBufferedReader(DirPth, ChrStUTF8);
String aSx = BfR.readLine();
while(aSx != null){

aSx = BfR.readLine();
}
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do you know of a faster way to go about this?
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lbrtchx

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[David Lamb]

To: qwertmonkey
From: "David Lamb" <david.lamb@1:261/38.remove-dpk-this>

To: qwertmonkey
From: David Lamb <[email protected]>

~
a) I need to actually scan large text files (10+ million lines).
b) On each line there is a NL sentence.
c) That processing should be run only once, but as fast as possible.
~
d) If you go:
d.1) int iPrx = Runtime.getRuntime().availableProcessors();
d.2) count all lines
d.3) split the file in (total lines)/iPrx
d.4) then run iPrx threads (or executable instances using a batch script)
the time you waste on d.2) and d.3) will make all that strat senseless

How slow is the NL processing? Does it make any sense to read lines in one
thread and pass each off to one of the iPrx-1 other threads that might run on
separate processors?

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[Patricia Shanahan]

To: qwertmonkey
From: "Patricia Shanahan" <patricia.shanahan@1:261/38.remove-dpk-this>

To: qwertmonkey
From: Patricia Shanahan <[email protected]>

~
a) I need to actually scan large text files (10+ million lines).
b) On each line there is a NL sentence.
c) That processing should be run only once, but as fast as possible.
~
d) If you go:
d.1) int iPrx = Runtime.getRuntime().availableProcessors();
d.2) count all lines
d.3) split the file in (total lines)/iPrx
d.4) then run iPrx threads (or executable instances using a batch script)
the time you waste on d.2) and d.3) will make all that strat senseless

Why worry about splitting by actual line count, rather than by byte position in
file?

Patricia

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[Joshua Cranmer]

To: qwertmonkey
From: "Joshua Cranmer" <joshua.cranmer@1:261/38.remove-dpk-this>

To: qwertmonkey
From: Joshua Cranmer <[email protected]>

[Gah, your newsreader is incapable of threading posts correctly. Please find a
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a) I need to actually scan large text files (10+ million lines).
b) On each line there is a NL sentence.
c) That processing should be run only once, but as fast as possible.

Only 10M-line files?

The easiest way to do this is to just make a ThreadPoolExecutor and have your
main thread dispatch requests as fast as possible to the pool. Or you can do
the work pooling yourself, which may be faster since you're not continually
posting Runnable's, but timing results would be necessary to convince me.

There are other options, but chances are, your disk drive is going to saturate
first (in short, it involves reading non-consecutive pages of the file, which
is generally a recipe for disaster).

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[John B. Matthews]

To: qwertmonkey
From: "John B. Matthews" <john.b..matthews@1:261/38.remove-dpk-this>

To: qwertmonkey
From: "John B. Matthews" <[email protected]>

d.2) count all lines

Maybe ask ProcessBuilder to `wc -l`, or similar?

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