[pymvpa] Time for single permutation varies between a few seconds and several minutes

[Yaroslav Halchenko]

On Wed, 08 Apr 2015, J.A. Etzel wrote:

> I don't know if it could be the case here, but I also run large
> (non-pymvpa) memory jobs on a large multiple-cluster computer, and
> the run time of equivalent jobs sometimes varies quite a bit. The
> cluster
> administrator said that the cause is the overall machine load: if the
> machine is running at near-full capacity it has to slow or pause
> operations to avoid overheating, and so my jobs take longer to finish.

yeap -- if there is more processes than available cpu/cores -- it can
get very notably slow.

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