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Suggested physical memory/swap space
Posted: Mon Jun 02, 2008 8:48 am
by mjacobson
Our data center is moving towards running on virtual machines. The basic configuration has 512Mb physical memory and 512Mb swap space. I am seeing many of my vortex scripts that build indexes get killed and I am guessing that it is due to malloc trying to protect the system. What is the recommend min memory/swap space configuration for a Linux box running Texis?
Suggested physical memory/swap space
Posted: Mon Jun 02, 2008 9:51 am
by John
Are you using the indexmem property to specify how much memory to use when updating indexes? The default is to use 40% of the physical memory, which assuming it is reported correctly should still be 200MB. If you have several running at the same time that could cause a problem.
Also how large is the index that is being updated? Ideally you should have enough memory to have the <indexname>.tok file in memory, and at least 10% of the rest of the index files.