[m-dev.] Re: htdig using too much memory

[Tyson Dowd]

On 11-Feb-1999, Fergus Henderson <fjh at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> On 05-Feb-1999, Peter Ross <petdr at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> > > And does anyone have any ideas as to why htmerge is using so much memory,
> > > or how we can avoid this problem?
> >
> > The problem appears to be in indexing the mailing lists, not the rest of
> > the web site.
> ...
> > I guess the simple fix would be to arrange the htmerge and nightly tests
> > to occur at different times.
> 
> That may not be enough; hydra only has 384M of virtual memory
> (256M real plus 128M swap), so if htmerge is using more than 256M,
> the system will thrash, which is undesirable, and if anyone else
> happens to be using it for anything else then it may crash.
> 
> I did a search for "memory htmerge" on www.htdig.org, and I pulled
> up a thread which said that there were some memory leaks.
> The ChangeLog for htdig 3.1 includes some entries about
> fixing memory leaks in htmerge.  So I will download htdig 3.1
> and try using that.

There is a debian package for htdig 3.1.

/mnt/monash/distributions/debian/dists/potato/main/binary-i386/web/
htdig_3.1.0b4-1.deb

It warns that database format have changed, so I haven't installed
it just yet, but simply doing
        dpkg -i <filename>
will upgrade to this version it.

However, since the version you have installed in /usr/local is a little
more up-to-date, it might as well be used.

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