I had a 512MB swap and a GB of RAM, but htmerge used the /tmp directory
which was only 250MB. htmerge would constantly core dump. I hacked the
source for words.cc to use a different temp directory and htmerge worked
fine.
Mike
On Wed, 3 Oct 2001, Gilles Detillieux wrote:
> According to Nico De Ranter:
> > we have htdig running on a VA Linux box running Debian Linux.
> > The system has 512MB RAM and 512MB swap. A few hours after starting
> > an update of the htdig database the system runs out of memory
> > and crashes. Is there any way to restrict the amount of memory
> > the update can use?
> >
> > Running htdig 3.1.5, on Intel32 with kernel 2.4.6
>
> Does the whole operating system crash, or is it just htdig that dies?
> If it's the whole system, I'd suspect a kernel bug or a hardware
> problem, either with RAM or memory management.
>
> If it's just htdig, then you probably need to work out a way of
> limiting how much it tries to index all at once. E.g. you can index a
> few subsections of your site separately, and then merge them together
> afterward.
>
>
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