htdig using too much memory

[Fergus Henderson]

Hi,

The mercury nightly tests have been failing on hydra for the past
couple of weeks.  The reason seems to be that it is running out of
memory, due to `htmerge' taking up all of the physical memory
and most of the virual memory on the machine:

  PID USER     PRI  NI  SIZE  RSS SHARE STAT  LIB %CPU %MEM   TIME COMMAND
 3943 petdr     11   0  290M 202M   104 R       0  7.3 80.2  14:58 htmerge

So, Peter Ross, can you please stop running htmerge as part of your
cron script to install the Mercury WWW pages?

And does anyone have any ideas as to why htmerge is using so much memory,
or how we can avoid this problem?

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