Slow SPSS 16/PASW 18 Windows XP
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Both SPSS 16 (last year) and newly installed PASW 18.0.2 are very slow on my Windows XP SP 2 (University mandated installation - won't upgrade to SP3 because of possible incompatibilities, apparently). 3Gb memory, Quad core 2.66 mhz, plenty of disk storage. Mouse movements over teh SPSS windows are slow and jerky; typing in syntax, data entry and so on are all very slow. ANy ideas?
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Re: Slow SPSS 16/PASW 18 Windows XP
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Will do.
-----Original Message----- > Date: Tue Sep 28 06:20:36 EDT 2010 > From: "rwpjones" <[hidden email]> > Subject: Slow SPSS 16/PASW 18 Windows XP > To: [hidden email] > > Both SPSS 16 (last year) and newly installed PASW 18.0.2 are very slow on my > Windows XP SP 2 (University mandated installation - won't upgrade to SP3 > because of possible incompatibilities, apparently). 3Gb memory, Quad core > 2.66 mhz, plenty of disk storage. Mouse movements over teh SPSS windows are > slow and jerky; typing in syntax, data entry and so on are all very slow. > ANy ideas? > -- > View this message in context: http://spssx-discussion.1045642.n5.nabble.com/Slow-SPSS-16-PASW-18-Windows-XP-tp2856492p2856492.html > Sent from the SPSSX Discussion mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > ===================== > To manage your subscription to SPSSX-L, send a message to > [hidden email] (not to SPSSX-L), with no body text except the > command. To leave the list, send the command > SIGNOFF SPSSX-L > For a list of commands to manage subscriptions, send the command > INFO REFCARD Courtney Cronley, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Associate Center of Alcohol Studies Rutgers University [hidden email] ===================== To manage your subscription to SPSSX-L, send a message to [hidden email] (not to SPSSX-L), with no body text except the command. To leave the list, send the command SIGNOFF SPSSX-L For a list of commands to manage subscriptions, send the command INFO REFCARD |
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In reply to this post by rwpjones
Jon Peck suggested going into desktp tools and
turning the hardware accelerator to zero. This works for SPSS but buggers
everything else up.
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Could someone recommend an easy way to fix this for a Windows 7, 64 bit Dell latitude E6410 with SPSS v19.0?
I can barely type in an SPSS syntax file because it is so slow. (all the advice I have seen so far suggests reducing the hw acceleration to zero, but it involves a lot of complicated code and/or risks creating problems for other programs.) Perry |
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Dear Readers I had what appears to be a similar problem. After hunting around for some time, on one computer I installed a new the OS (Windows 7 – previously XP) and all software. On the other I took the computer off my employer’s network, reinstalled XP, installed all service packs (SP3) and upgrades, and all software, and the problem has gone away. It may have been to do with my employer’s refusal to upgrade XP SP2 to SP3 for “compatibility” reasons. Tedious, time consuming, and disappointing, as I like to find solutions, even if I eventually upgrade. Sorry can only advise you do the same, unless you already have! Richard From: PerryGrossman [via SPSSX Discussion] [mailto:[hidden email]] Could someone recommend an easy way to fix this for a Windows 7, 64 bit Dell latitude E6410 with SPSS v19.0? If you reply to this email, your message will be added to the discussion below: http://spssx-discussion.1045642.n5.nabble.com/Slow-SPSS-16-PASW-18-Windows-XP-tp2856492p3360048.html To unsubscribe from Slow SPSS 16/PASW 18 Windows XP, click here. |
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To add to the comments below, while reducing
or turning off hardware acceleration used to be necessary for some defective
graphics adaptors, that problem resulted in menus failing to draw and similar
display problems. It would have nothing to do with keyboard responsiveness.
The problem is most likely environmental, although being very short
of memory might also be a cause. You might want to investigate via
the Task Manager processes display whether paging or other process statistics
show anything odd.
Regards, Jon Peck Senior Software Engineer, IBM [hidden email] 312-651-3435 From: rwpjones <[hidden email]> To: [hidden email] Date: 01/27/2011 11:14 AM Subject: Re: [SPSSX-L] Slow SPSS 16/PASW 18 Windows XP Sent by: "SPSSX(r) Discussion" <[hidden email]> Dear Readers
I had what appears to be a similar problem. After hunting around for some time, on one computer I installed a new the OS (Windows 7 – previously XP) and all software. On the other I took the computer off my employer’s network, reinstalled XP, installed all service packs (SP3) and upgrades, and all software, and the problem has gone away. It may have been to do with my employer’s refusal to upgrade XP SP2 to SP3 for “compatibility” reasons.
Tedious, time consuming, and disappointing, as I like to find solutions, even if I eventually upgrade. Sorry can only advise you do the same, unless you already have!
Richard
From: PerryGrossman [via SPSSX Discussion]
[mailto:[hidden
email]]
Could someone recommend an easy way to fix this for a Windows
7, 64 bit Dell latitude E6410 with SPSS v19.0?
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There are two updates and one new item
on the SPSS Community (www.ibm.com/developerworks/spssdevcentral).
Make Data with Cases In response to recent discussions on the SPSSX-L listserve, the Make New Dataset with Cases dialog has been enhanced. This dialog box, which appears after installation on the File>New>Data with Cases menu, generates a dataset of random variables. You can now generate data from any of 23 probability distributions (including one not available from the Statistics random number generators). These can be orthogonalized so that all the correlations are exactly zero. Finally, correlations among the variables can be induced. The available correlation patterns are equal, Toeplitz, factor analytic, arbitrary user specified, and random. The correlations will, of course, in most cases change the distribution families of the variables. This dialog, which generates a small Python program, should facilitate simulations and exploring patterns in data. Besides using programmability, it uses an SPSS Statistics Input Program and the MATRIX procedure. The Input Program can be displayed, which may be useful in learning this rather neglected corner of SPSS Statistics technology. SPSSINC SPLIT DATASET The SPSSINC SPLIT DATASET extension command has been enhanced to allow more flexibility in the location and names of the output files. This command generates a set of sav files by splitting the active dataset according to the values of one or more variables. It generalizes the built-in Split Files mechanism. Besides its general data management utility, this command can be used with the SPSSINC PROCESS FILES extension command to run whole jobs against each partition of a dataset. Standard Split Files runs a single procedure against each split, but sometimes you need to run a set of commands or reports that don't fit that pattern. The original version of SPLIT DATASET allowed for only one split variable and wrote all the sav files to a single location using the split variable values or value labels to generate the file names. The enhancements allow an unlimited number of split variables and allow the output files to be written to different directories and the file names to be controlled all based on the values or labels. Quotetext The third utility, quotetext, is a dialog box called Quote Text File Contents. It is meant for situations where complex SQL queries are generated without using the Statistics Database Wizard. If you do this, you know how painful it can be to have to adjust your SQL to conform to the Statistics syntax requirements. Quotetext takes plain SQL and makes it conform to the requirements of GET DATA, taking into account any quotes already in the SQL text. You can then insert this in your Statistics syntax stream. All three of these tools can be downloaded from the SPSS Community (www.ibm.com/developerworks/spssdevcentral) in the Utilities Collection and require the Python plugins/Essentials also available from this Community. They work with SPSS Version 17 or later. Plugins for Version 17 or earlier are not available from the Community but are still available from the old SPSS Developer Central site at www.spss.com/devcentral. No programmability knowledge is required to use these tools. If you haven't explored the wealth of utility, statistical, and graphical tools available from the SPSS Community, I invite you to join the community and check these out. There are dozens and dozens of items, and they are all free! Regards, Jon Peck Senior Software Engineer, IBM [hidden email] 312-651-3435 |
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Hi Everyone, I just want let you know that the SPSSINC SPLIT DATASET dialog is a really nice add-on to SPSS and I highly recommend that you download and add this to your SPSS package. It is very nice to be able to be able to split your data into unique files in one easy step and it has the added efficiency of creating the directories for you based on variable labels and naming the files using the same structure. While I discovered this add-on for a more complex project, I can see it as a useful tool for a variety of situations. Thanks to SPSS, IBM, and Jon Peck for doing a great job on this new add-on!! Sincerely, Jeanne Eidex Eidex Group, LLC From: SPSSX(r) Discussion [mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of Jon K Peck There are two updates and one new item on the SPSS Community (www.ibm.com/developerworks/spssdevcentral). |
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Are you asking about how to do Rasch in
Statistics? Once you install the extension command, you can use the
dialog box help or run
SPSSINC RASCH /Help. for the operational details. If you want more information on the model, you can run this small program, which shows the underlying R help, which includes some details about the model as well as irrelevant syntax details. begin program r. library(ltm) help(ltm) end program. Note that there are three item response extension commands available from the SPSS Community site (www.ibm.com/developerworks/spssdevcentral). The help example above is for RASCH in particular. SPSSINC RASH his package provides estimation of Rasch models. STATS GRM This package fits the Graded Response model for ordinal polytomous data via an IRT approach STATS IRM This package fits three-parameter item response models using the tpm function from the R ltm package. It is assumed that the values of the item variables is 0,1 Jon Peck Senior Software Engineer, IBM [hidden email] 312-651-3435 From: Eins Bernardo <[hidden email]> To: [hidden email] Date: 02/08/2011 08:51 PM Subject: [SPSSX-L] Rasch analysis using SPSS Sent by: "SPSSX(r) Discussion" <[hidden email]>
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In reply to this post by E. Bernardo
There isn't a "native" Statistics procedure for fitting Rasch models, but there is an extension command that uses the R programmability package and leverages the R ltm package authored by Dimitris Rizopoulos. You can download the files for the extension command at: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/files/app?lang=en#/person/270002VCWN/file/9a5683c5-d2d0-4cb4-9fc0-6e75a8568329 Alex
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I have a related issue when using MANOVA with SPSS 19 on a new HP with 64 bit Windows 7/Quad core AMD processor.
I have about 8 dependent variables and have tried to examine the effects of a number of fixed factors and 1 or 2 covariates. As long as I have 4 or 5 fixed factors every thing seems ok. I don't know the exact number but when adding a few more factors, the analyze runs "forever". I can take the very same analysis and run it on my older P4 computer, Windows XP, and SPSS 16 and it runs around 2 hours. I let my Windows 7 with SPSS 19 run all night (> 7hrs) with no luck - never ended. Memory usage was high. There was a suggestion to turn off one of the preferences and I tried it, but that made no difference. All of the smaller cases and other analysis I have done in SPSS 19 work fine on the Windows machine. Just these larger MANOVA choke. I have 4 GB of memory too. I am frustrated because I just bought the 19 and now must use my 16 to get something done. |
Re: Slow SPSS 16/PASW 18 Windows XP-- SPSS V19, win 7
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I am still having the problem of slow typing in SPSS syntax files.
I have been monitoring the CPU and disk usage. CPU and disk usage seems low, though there are some peaks. I have closed all unused programs (I still need Word and Excel when I work in SPSS). I have removed unused programs from the computer. I have also tried the high performance option in the Windows Mobility Center One person suggested (re)installed the OS. I suppose that I could do that, but am not eager to go down that road. I already have Win7 (Dell E6410), and do all the updates so I would think that the OS is okay (given that it is Windows) as other programs work okay. What I am doing currently is typing syntax in Notepad and pasting it in SPSS syntax files. That is okay, but then there are still often edits to make in syntax files. Any other suggestions? |
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