Hi all, Currently i am trying this on R which is running on multicore processor. I am not sure how to use mclapply() function on this task. Can anyone help me. # Setting up directory setwd("/XXX/XXXXXXXX/XXXX/XXXX/2011/07/20") library(sqldf) # Data is available in the form of multiple structured log files (nearly 10K log files) # I am using the following syntax to get required fields and aggregations from the logs and creating a file called DF (with 3 columns V2, V14 and Min(V16)) a <- list.files(path = ".", pattern = "2011-07-20", all.files = FALSE, full.names = FALSE, recursive = FALSE, ignore.case = FALSE) DF <- NULL for (f in a) { dat <- read.csv(f, header=FALSE, sep="\t", na.strings="",dec=".", strip.white=TRUE, fill=TRUE) data_1 <- sqldf("SELECT V2, V14, MIN(V16) FROM dat WHERE V6=104 GROUP BY V2, V14") DF <- rbind(DF, data_1) } # Currently this process is taking almost 3 Hrs for me. Can anyone help me to use mclapply() on this operation and get this process completed asap. Request you to provide me the syntax. Thanks in advance Regards, Madana -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/R-with-Multicore-running-on-Linux-tp3685137p3685137.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com.