python is blocked by 13500 entries in a bib library

Hi,

I am Bernhard Kleine, research scientist, and living in the black forest
in south Germany.

I have managed to start using pybliographer. I encountered some serious
setbacks:

>From using export functions of Endnote, I have a bib library with more
than 13000 entries. Opening the library needs some minutes but finally
the library is open. However, this blocks almost all other activity on
my computer (debian linux, athlon 2000 ).

I would like to know what hardware is required to have the computer run
normally while the bib file is open. 

BTW, opening the same file in emacs works much faster and searching
works flawlessly, this shows that the hardware at least with emacs is
sufficient. 

I happen to notice that python occupied some 421 MByte of memory which
is 80 % of the swap area. When killing python, the memory was released.
The empty harddisk space beside the swap is in the GBytes, temp, var are
almost empty, therefore, it does not look, that filespace is limiting. 

I will be able to send the file, however, this would take some time,
since am I only connected via dial-in, and I would have to go to some
place with true ethernet connection. You would also need to have a large
incoming email directory at your provider's server.

Since I would very much like to use this old library and add new entries
on a regular basis, any help or suggestion is heartfully welcome.


Bernhard



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