Re: Any suggestions for handling data of huge dimension in Java?
On 3/24/2011 6:09 AM, Simon wrote:
Dear All,
Good day. Regarding the subject, I am doing a research simulation by
using java in eclipse galileo. My laptop is dell studio xps 1645 with
i-7 processor and 4gb ram. When running the java source codes, I have
set the Run Configurations> Arguments> VM Arguments> -Xmx1024M -
XX:MaxPermSize=128M and also assign the object to null when it is no
longer needed. However, i keep facing java heap problem. Most of the
time, i am using HashMap<String,Double> and StringBuilder to hold the
data. Dimension of my data is around 5000 columns (or features) x 50
classes x 1000 files, and I need to extract that data into one file
for classification purpose. Therefore, is there any suggestions or
articles for me to cope with such problem?
Find a way to "classify" incrementally, so you don't need to hold
all 250,000,000 key/value pairs in memory at the same time. Sorry I
can't be more specific, but I'm unable to guess what your data looks
like or what "classify" means.
--
Eric Sosman
esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid
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