[egenix-users] BeeDict memory usage

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Daniel Naber wrote:
> On Monday 16 September 2002 12:53, you wrote:
> 
> 
>>BeeDicts keep an internal cache which could be the cause of the
>>memory footprint you are seeing. You can explicitly clear the
>>cache by calling .free_cache().
> 
> 
> This helps with the memory usage, but now I've got the same problem as 
> before, when I called flush(): the generated index files are smaller and 
> some information is missing. I'm trying to write a search engine, and the 
> index that calls free_cache() on every 50th file gets less matches when 
> searching (yes, the call to free_cache() is really the only difference in 
> the program).

That's strange indeed. Can you come up with a short demo which
displays the problem ?

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Marc-Andre Lemburg
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