Intensive-Memory-and-CPU-Load-on-an-Exhaustive-optimization

Are you reporting this as "a problem?" I would say this is exactly what you want the OS to be doing with a compute intensive problem like Exhaustive Optimization.

I might be concerned with the disk activity however. It may be writing to the virtual disk and slowing down the process.

I understand the CPU utilization can be high. I was more concerned with the Memory utilization.

I think the strategy code can cause this as well as WL7 itself.

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It may be writing to the virtual disk and slowing down the process.

So are you going to tell us how much on-chip memory your CPU has?

Because WL7 is multi-threaded for optimization operations, it will be using lots of memory to fit all processes (threads) of the problem. This is by design.

I guess the question remains, if you disabled some of the cores of your CPU, would that reduce virtual disk usage and speed things up? That's a good question. Why don't you try that. (The processor chip needs to be in supervisory mode to change core allocation.) If that helps, then I would buy a processor chip with more on-chip memory to elevate this problem. You may also want to redesign your strategy to use more localized memory to reduce the memory footprint of your problem.