Re: Reading environment from file

[Ken Kwok <kenkwok@cmu.edu>]

Some of my own networks are huge and take a long time to load on 
start-up.  One way I've gotten around this is to remove all units and 
connections in the network before saving the project and 
rebuild/reconnect the network at start up.  I have scripts that do this 
so it's done automatically for me when I save or load these projects. 
Of course, if you have saved weights that are based on some particular 
"random" projection pattern, you shd use "same seed" to preserve these 
projections.

This does not address the memory usage aspects of yr problem but I 
thought I'd share this to reduce yr loading/saving project time.  And 
the resultant project files are a lot smaller.

James Hammerton wrote:

> With some of the datasets I'm using, my PDP++ projects end up
> occupying a lot of memory once loaded, e.g. in one case over 500MB. As
> a result it takes a long time to read the project file in. Also I have
> problems going over 512MB of memory in that it forces me to do stuff
> on another machine which is for general use and I thus impact on other
> people's work.