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Summing columns in a text file

I have a data file that looks like this: and so on……till TOPIC:topic_2000. The first line is the topic and it’s weight. That is, I have the words in that specific topic and their respective weights. Now, I want to sum up the second column of each topic and check what value it gives. That is,…

diagnosing when I’m being limited by disk i/o

I’m running Python 2.7 on a Linux machine, and by far the slowest part of my script is loading a large json file from disk (a SSD) using the ujson library. When I check top during this loading process, my cpu usage is basically at 100%, leading me to believe that I’m being bottlenecked by parsing …

How to clear terminal window after TMOUT

I want to see if there is a way to have the terminal windows cleared after a TMOUT session timeout and disconnect. Does anyone know of a way to have the screen cleared once it times out? Answer Set an exit trap in your .bashrc file When the shell exits, it executes the clear command if TMOUT is set to

System crash with Linux CryptoApi Module

I tried to write Linux kernel module with cryptoapi. I found some examples like this: https://codedream.me/2014/04/cryptoapi-linux-kernel/ This example is working for me. Then I made some changes. Now my system crashes, when I try to load module. Can you help me with this? When variable len = 1000, module is …

Run console command with python

This code works fine directly in CLI: Now, I need to execute the same command but in Python environment. This is what I am trying: This is the error, and I am running the file and command from the same location: Answer you can just use os.system() if you have nothing else to do with spawned process. but, if y…

Ubuntu kernel kills CPLEX ILP process due to out of memory

I’m working with the ILOG CPLEX library in Java to solve an ILP problem. I’m using the default settings and did not adjust any parameters. I used the example code which I found online in samples for my main loop: I launched my jar on an Ubuntu 14 system with 24GB RAM and let it solve larger proble…

Cannot pass STDIN using shell_exec() in PHP

I am a complete beginner in PHP. I want to execute a java .jar file using PHP.The jar file takes input from STDIN and generates the output at STDOUT.To execute the jar file this is what I do in my Ubuntu Linux terminal: This works perfect.However when I replicate this in PHP as: This sends $p the output gener…