Re: [Wikidata] [ANN] nomunofu v0.1.0

[Roel Janssen]

On Mon, 2019-12-23 at 09:56 +0100, address@hidden wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 22, 2019 at 06:36:06PM -0500, Ted Thibodeau Jr via General Guile
> related discussions wrote:
> 
> [...]
> 
> > Hi, Amirouche --
> > 
> > Kingsley's points about tuning Virtuoso to use available 
> > RAM [1] and other system resources are worth looking into, 
> > but a possibly more important first question is --
> > 
> >    Exactly what version of Virtuoso are you testing?
> > 
> > If you followed the common script on Ubuntu 18.04, i.e., --
> > 
> >    sudo apt update
> > 
> >    sudo apt install virtuoso-opensource
> 
> Hi, Ted
> 
> I see you do have a stake in the game. That's fine, since having
> a good technical discussion should be independent of that. So
> thanks for chiming in!
> 
> > -- then you likely have version 6.1.6 of VOS, the Open Source 
> > Edition of Virtuoso, which shipped 2012-08-02 [2], and is far
> > behind the latest version of both VOS (v7.2.5+) and Enterprise 
> > Edition (v8.3+)!
> 
> Wouldn't that be something your company could contribute to
> Ubuntu/Debian? Contact the package maintainers and help keeping
> the free version of Virtuoso up to snuff on those platforms?
> 
> A rising tide, etc?
> 
> > You can also try Enterprise Edition at no cost for 30 days [5].
> 
> I think it's somewhat unfair to try to compare a freshly
> done free project with an established commercial one.
> 
> > I'll be interested to hear your new results, with a current build,
> > and with proper INI tuning in place.
> 
> Why not assist Amirouche on that part? After all, you have
> much easier access to Virtuoso expertise, and me, at least,
> rather prefer Amirouche to spend his time tuning his wonderful
> free creatures than tuning Virtuoso ;-P (of course, he'll end
> up doing what he enjoys most, I'd hope!).
> 

This might already help:
I packaged Virtuoso OSE 7.2.5 for GNU Guix.  The documentation of Virtuoso OSE
provides enough information to tune it quite well.  (I've been running Virtuoso
OSE (from a GNU Guix install) for about three years now, and am quite happy with
its performance).

Cheers,
Roel