Bojan

ECJ can be multi threaded, look at the manual, various elements of

breeding, evaluating, etc can be multithreaded and you can specify

threads=cores to get full parallelism. I am running ECJ on 12 core and

using all of them, so shouldn't be an issue.

Uday





On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 5:13 AM, Bojan Janisch

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> Hello everyone,

>

> I'm using ECJ for rule-creation and -evaluation. Recently I can use ECJ on 20 cores

> of a server which runs very fast at the beginning. But after a while the CPU-usage

> goes down to 1 core which I don't understand.

>

> The evaluation process looks so:

>

> Step 1: Create a valid rule from GPTree

> Step 2: If rule contains nothing useful skip everything else, set bad score and go to Step 6

> Step 3: Rule contains something useful, so load the testdata

> Step 4: Run the rule through Drools and testdata (Drools is a ruleengine which also runs multithreaded)

> Step 5: Compare the output of Drools and a goldstandard (the goldstandard and some more information are one time loaded at setup)

> Step 6: Put the score, returned by the comparison, into the koza fitness

>

> I don't know why but after some time, ECJ is only using 1 core.

> Does someone got an idea where the problem could come from?

>

> Greetings

>

> Bojan