Re: Archetypes references - memory explosion

Alexander Limi wrote at 2005-11-20 20:57 -0800:
> ...
>From: Stephen Kenworthy <[email protected]>
>Newsgroups: gmane.comp.web.zope.plone.archetypes.general
>Subject: Updating the uid catalog
>Date: Tue, 05 Apr 2005 17:37:47 +0800
>
>I'm having trouble updating the archetypes uid catalog (Advanced tab).
>  I have 4500 references in the catalog and when I click "Update
>catalog" the process eats up a lot of memory (450Mb), causing the
>machine to do a lot of disk caching and hence slow drastically. I
>haven't been able to get the update process to complete as a result.
>
>Should the catalog update be taking up this much memory?

No. It is very surprising.

> ...
>I did eventually fix the problem by deleting all my content, cleaning/
>reindexing the catalog, re-adding 4500 items (it was scripted) and
>then indexing worked fine with a minimal memory overhead (the process
>grew to 70Mb). The difference here being that the content was CREATED
>using archetypes 1.3.2-final whereas before it had gone through the
>upgrade from 1.3.0-final.

One would expect something like this (rather small memory footprint
for the indexation of about 4.500 reference).

I fear debugging would be necessary to understand what happened
with your migrated data.

-- 
Dieter


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