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Re: PSPP Environmental variables
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John Darrington |
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Re: PSPP Environmental variables |
Date: |
Tue, 27 Jul 2010 14:41:25 +0000 |
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Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) |
A number of people seem to have been asking this question recently.
The short answer is that it's currently not possible without recompiling
pspp. A Bug has been filed and will hopefully be fixed soon. You can follow
the progress at http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?30530
Note also that when processing very large datasets, it will probably be
worthwhile
setting the WORKSPACE parameter (see the manual for details) to some large
figure.
This may even avoid the need for temporary files to be created in some
instances.
J'
On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 03:29:15PM -0400, James wrote:
We are currently trying to get pspp up and running on one of our
systems. One thing we can't seem to figure out is where/how to set the
ENV variables to get pspp to pick them up. I have been searching the
documentation and the internet in general for a day now, and can't seem
to come up with an answer.
We are specifically trying to set TMPDIR=/data/tmp instead of /tmp.
Despite the variable being exported and being echo'd, it is not picked
up when pspp is called, and pspp defaults to /tmp.
This is bad for us, as we have a 20TB partition on /data/, but only
100GB or so on /. This means that pspp can't be used on large files
without erroring out with the following error message.
pspp: writing to temporary file: No space left on device
When using pspp, I can see that it is writing to /tmp, not /data/tmp
when it is running:
pspp 15778 testuser 6u REG 8,1
71942660096 7700489 /tmp/tmpftWxyZS (deleted)
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