[Xapian-tickets] [Xapian] #358: Omega: omindex eating up all available physical memory

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#358: Omega: omindex eating up all available physical memory
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 Reporter:  evoisard  |       Owner:  olly  
     Type:  defect    |      Status:  new   
 Priority:  normal    |   Milestone:        
Component:  Omega     |     Version:  1.0.12
 Severity:  normal    |    Keywords:        
Blockedby:            |    Platform:  Linux 
 Blocking:            |  
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Comment(by olly):

 Assuming you're using GCC 3.4 or newer, could you try:

 {{{
 #!sh
 GLIBCXX_FORCE_NEW=1
 export GLIBCXX_FORCE_NEW
 }}}

 And then run omindex.

 This tells the C++ STL allocator not to horde memory it has previously
 allocated, which might be at least part of the issue here.

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