[ale] 16 Gigs of RAM and still swapping!

Greg Freemyer greg.freemyer at gmail.com
Fri Aug 21 17:02:11 EDT 2009


It's a proprietary document indexing tool.

I'm trying to index about 400 GB of MS Exchange EDB files.

Fortunately the app runs in Fedora which is pretty cool.  I've been up
to meet the developers and they are all long time unix/linux guys.

Oh, and even if it takes 12 or 18 hours because of the swapping, that
is still massively fast compared to the other tools I've seen.  the
trouble is the algorithm they use calls for massive amounts of ram.

Greg

On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 4:46 PM, Chuck Payne<terrorpup at gmail.com> wrote:
> Can ask what app you are running, geez sounds as bad as orcale?
>
> Chuck
>
> On 8/21/09, Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Actually I do have a question.
>>
>> I have 2 big tasks running.  The more important one to me is only 2GB
>> of Virtual Ram per top.
>>
>> Is there a way I can keep that task in ram? I don't want to restart it.
>>
>> Greg
>>
>> On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 4:23 PM, Greg Freemyer<greg.freemyer at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>> Nothing else to say.
>>>
>>> I've asked the software vendor and they say, "we recommend 64 GB of
>>> ram"  ie. swapping is no surprise.
>>>
>>> My cpu is only 80% idle waiting on swap to kick in, so at least I'm
>>> getting some work done.  This task should finish by morning.
>>>
>>> Greg
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Head of EDD Tape Extraction and Processing team
Litigation Triage Solutions Specialist
http://www.linkedin.com/in/gregfreemyer
Preservation and Forensic processing of Exchange Repositories White Paper -
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