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RE: Memory Usage

2001-09-26 06:09:57


NO! Phil
When a program is writing that allows the user to specify the amount of
memory to allocate to the program it goes out and gets that memory so no
matter what other program comes along that memory is already accounted for.
The more memory you give to Namazu the faster it supposes to index your
files, and I'm indexing over 100,000 files. 26 hours later Namazu indexes
all the files, but it's should take that long on a robust $100,000 UNIX
machine with 2 gigs of memory allocated to Namazu alone.  When I first ran
Namazu I was getting an out of memory error until I figured out how to fix
that, so yes, in this case Namazu needs that much memory.  One of the tips
for faster indexing (http://www.namazu.org/doc/tips.html.en#indexing) with
Namazu is to give the program more memory if your machine has memory to
spare, well this machine does.

Thanks for your help,
Leon

-----Original Message-----
From: Philip S Tellis 
[mailto:philip(_at_)konark(_dot_)ncst(_dot_)ernet(_dot_)in] 
Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2001 10:40 PM
To: 'namazu-users-en(_at_)namazu(_dot_)org'
Subject: Re: Memory Usage

On Tue, 25 Sep 2001, Collins, Leon wrote:

ON_MEMORY_MAX to use about 2 gigabytes of that memory but Namazu
doesn't seem to be using any of the memory I allocated to it.  When
I use the top command to see how mush memory Namazu is using it's
about 30-40 megs.  Can anyone offer any suggestions or any help?

Maybe, namazu does not require that much memory?  You have set an upper
limit, not a lower limit.  If namazu needs 1MB, it will use 1MB even if
it has 2GB available.  Isn't that standard with any computer program?

Philip

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