I want to classify using libsvm. I have 9 training sets , each set has 144000 labelled instances , each instance having a variable number of features. It is taking about 12 hours to train one set ( ./svm-train with probability estimates ). As i dont have much time , I would like to run more than one set at a time. I'm not sure if i can do this.. Can i run all 9 processes simultaneously in different terminals ?
./svm-train -b 1 feat1.txt
./svm-train -b 1 feat2.txt
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./svm-train -b 1 feat9.txt
( i'm using fedora core 5 )