From: John Joyce <dangerwillrobinsondanger@...>
Date: 2007-09-26T02:16:59+09:00
Subject: Re: memory use question


On Sep 25, 2007, at 10:00 AM, Roger Pack wrote:

> John Joyce wrote:
>> On Sep 24, 2007, at 3:57 PM, Roger Pack wrote:
>>
>>> VmStk:       120 kB
>>> Proc    146
>>>
>> Why wouldn't it be?
>
>>
>> Maybe you already are, but if you're not, you need to manage the flow
>> of data in (and out) of the program.
>
> Yeah I think the problem is that I have the file incoming (a string),
> write it to disk, then read it from disk again.  So lots of random
> strings kicking around.  Maybe GC.start will help me :)
> Thank you!
> -Roger
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>
Handle the data in pieces whenever possible. Take smaller bites. It  
may make things slower for very very small files/ data sets, but  it  
will be more stable over larger ones.