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OriginalGriff wrote: if you have a very large bus it is a slow way to get from A to B, but when you average it out over the large number of passengers it's pretty quick.
...something-something-bandwidth-of-a-station-wagon-carrying-storage-medium...
OriginalGriff wrote: except you are putting a lot more vehicles on the same roads which means more chance of traffic jams, accidents, breakdowns, and so forth. Put too many on the same roads and they get blocked up with cars and nobody can move anywhere because there is a car in their way ...
There's a meme for that...
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Good analysis. Best way to think about it is this: yourself, you cannot really multitask. You can time slice (we used to call this time share), or you can delegate. Everything done internally is really just time slicing, partitioned according to the rules and privileges you assign to processes, and thread within those processes.
ThisOldTony has it right; I am just an echo.
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You maybe have a single CPU to work with? 
(a place where data transfer is done in 80GB XML files it seems to be feasible)
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: a place where data transfer is done in 80GB XML files it seems to be feasible
Well, that's governments for you. 
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No way! I work with gov and they just bright and smooth... cream-dela-cream...
(today is the 5th week I'm waiting for a version update - still there are personnel to sign it)
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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In my case I actually understand them, we're not the only customer on this data, so for them it's just easier to upload a weekly XML file to an ftp-server.
And it's not even my own government in this case.
I don't understand Danish, and Danes take offence if I speak English to them. (Quite rightly so I might add  ) So if I want support I need to employ Johnny.
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I'm using an XMLReader to chop up the filestream into an XDocument for every record.
Using an XMLReader all the way became to much work, handling null nodes and such stuff.
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I wrote a command line app that imports a NESSUS security scan XML data file - the largest I've seen to date is about 8gb. We import the data into a SQL server database. It's not multi-threaded at all that I recall. I do remember that the file was too big for XDoument to work.
I feel your pain.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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If the parsing can be partitioned into n subproblems, where n is the number of cores, then I would consider creating n daemons and locking each one into its own core. If any of them block, offloading the blocking operations to thread pools might help.
Partitioning the problem will help to reduce semaphore contention and cache collisions.
But I haven't had to populate a large database this way, so I could be full of shite. 
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This is exactly what I didn't want to have to learn.
At least all proper databases already handle parallel execution properly.
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yup - learn't the hard way, 1st identify where the program uses it's resources
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More proof that some people have real problems.
So stop complaining people, you could be Jörgen today.
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Ron Anders wrote: So stop complaining people, you could be Jörgen today.
...and have no toilet paper.
Jeremy Falcon
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Isn't it enough if I'm being me?
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I was vaguely reminded of an episode of Home Improvement, where one of the kids got himself in some trouble, so one of the brothers says "I wouldn't wanna be you right now", and the other responds with "I wouldn't wanna be you, ever".
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I was going to say - size of the work done in each task is key...
But the underlying technology can also have an effect, by reducing the cost of task creation. If you're using a work queue on top of a thread pool, you're not creating a thread for each task, you're pushing/popping tasks on and off a queue.
I created a little tool to detect duplicate files using that sort of parallelism. It contains two main areas of parallelism:
- The file search library that I use adds a new task for each directory it sees. Each task processes just the files that are immediate children of the directory the task was created for.
- The detection of duplicates is split so that each task hashes a group of files that have the same size. This is performed using a data parallelism library, which makes parallelising things very easy.
The amount of speedup I get isn't anywhere near the number of processor cores in use (I get a factor of just over two speedup on an eight core machine), but I think that the amount of IO being done serialises the processing to a certain degree. Benchmarking ripgrep, another tool that uses similar parallelism, shows that running with 8 threads (on 8 logical/4 physical cores) is just over 3x faster than using 1.
Java, Basic, who cares - it's all a bunch of tree-hugging hippy cr*p
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why are u even parsing xml files and that too 80gb !!! and then saving it to the database !!! .. u could try to use the sql server bulk import tools to do this and avoid programming such stuff all together...
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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Because I want to have the data extracted into normalized tables.
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I've missed out on that possibility completely.
A bit late now, but I'll take a look at it anyway. 
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I think I see the reason why I missed out on that possibility, it does not seem to exist on SQL Server 2012.
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if its the dev env u have you can run the sql server setup and select the components needed to get SSIS services and vs based client tools.is on the iso or dvd etc.. .. also there is OPENROWSET Simple way to Import XML Data into SQL Server with T-SQL .....
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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I think I see the reason why I missed out on that possibility, XMLSource does not seem to exist on SQL Server 2012.
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Welcome to the cool club though. Ladies can't resist an async coder. #science
Jeremy Falcon
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