Rule of thumb: How long to cache?

[gsus]

Hi!
I understand that the caching process can take a lot of time. But I was wondering whether it is possible to roughly estimate how long the update may take, depending on RAM and size of database.
Is there any rule of thumb, like "1 hour per 50MB and per 1GB RAM" ? It doesn't even have to be too exact.
Greetings, gsus

Another question: I started the caching process during PT2 was open. As you say, it is then very slow. But will it remain to cache with this slow speed even if I close PT2 ?

[kraada]

It's been a while since I personally recreated my cache. With a database of several hundred thousand hands, I just opted to start the caching process before bed. By the time I got up in the morning it had finished.

The problem is that a lot of different things are going to influence how long the cache takes to create: how much RAM you have, how fast your CPU is, how much free HD space you have, how big the database is, so it would be difficult to create a rough rule of thumb beyond this: if your database is many hundreds of thousands of hands, start it in the evening and let it run overnight. By the next time you want to start up a session, it will most likely be complete.