Re: [Gretl-users] gretl crashes during quantile regression

Sven, sorry for not coming back to you sooner. Most likely one has to call it "does not respond" or "freeze" Yesterday evening, I waited several hours for a response, in fact Gretl did not respond after running all night. Because this happened after the estimation process was finished (all matrices were created and filled), the only thing missing to properly end the procedure was that Gretl returns the script output with all the echos (which were not set to off). I did not expect that producing a text output is more time consuming than estimating several quantile regressions. It took Gretl approximately 10 minutes to create one matrix (497 rows, 1317 columns), which hold the weighted quantile estimates (> 3,000,000 quantile regressions), which seems quite fast to me. However, using the command "set echo off", does not lead to the very long response time (or freeze). I also tried to run a simpler script, that basically calculates for each individual and each step an average of the weighted quantiles. Again, not using the "set echo off" option, leads to a very long response time. I terminated Gretl after an hour and rerun the script using the "set echo off", which did not cause any response time. I am not sure, if the explanation of my problem is clear enough. Summarizing: To me it seems Gretl has some response problems producing very long script outputs but using "set echo off" seems to be sufficient to suppress this behavior (at least for my problem). Thank you very much for your patience and all your helpful comments. Best, Jan -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Plus.line MailSystem [mailto:cyrus@mailer.plusline.de] Im Auftrag von Sven Schreiber Gesendet: Donnerstag, 7. Januar 2016 16:57 An: gretl-users(a)lists.wfu.edu Betreff: Re: [Gretl-users] gretl crashes during quantile regression Am 07.01.2016 um 07:07 schrieb Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti: I haven't read the entire thread, but just to be clear: There doesn't seem to be a "crash" in the sense of gretl exiting unexpectedly. (right?) Furthermore, it could just be that gretl doesn't "respond" anymore because it's busy crunching the numbers. (right?) Or are we actually talking about a "freeze" in the sense that gretl will never return to a normal state, even after waiting for a very long time (which could be hours, days...)? thanks, sven _______________________________________________ Gretl-users mailing list Gretl-users(a)lists.wfu.edu http://lists.wfu.edu/mailman/listinfo/gretl-users