This conversation inspired a rather off-topic question from me, in mysql are you forced to hardcode the limit/offset in to the SQL like this? limit $skip$, $max$
In Postgres they can bind as parameters: limit #limit# offset #offset# I'm not really a mysql user so I am curious... -J On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 5:46 PM, Jeff P <killingd...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > Thank you alot, Larry!!! > > It really scared the hell out of me when I checked the profiler and saw > that > 1 query used so much memory. > I can confirm that using your technique reduced ram usage to 5mb (which is > practically nothing!) > > Thanks again! > > > Larry Meadors wrote: > > > > Ha, yeah, it's the driver for sure. You'll get the same results if you > > prepare and execute the statement yourself instead of using ibatis. > > > > I remember when looked at the source for the pgsql driver some time > > ago - it does a similar thing - it fetched the results of the query > > into a big freaking byte[][] structure (assuming that you'll need it > > all) then walked through it as I called rs.next(). > > > > Even a RowHandler won't help because it's happening before ibatis gets > > to touch the data - it happens when you execute the statement. > > > > Use the limit trick in your select statement. It's the only way to > > prevent this problem if the driver does this. > > > > Larry > > > > > > On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 11:34 AM, Jeff P <killingd...@hotmail.com> > wrote: > >> > >> For what its worth... my profiler says the 3 biggest memory hogs are: > >> > > > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://www.nabble.com/Excessive-memory-usage-%28feature-or-bug-%29-tp21568317p21574300.html > Sent from the iBATIS - User - Java mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > >