Re: [ jEdit-devel ] search in project exhausting available memory?

[Marcelo V. <va...@us...>]

Alan Ezust wrote:
> I notice this on both "search in project root" as well as xsearch
> search project files.
> I frequently run out of heap space during the search, and it aborts.
> Then I must do a manual System.gc() to free up the memory again.

If you get OOM error when searching through large data sets it means
that somewhere, references to data are being kept for longer than they
are needed.

I run jEdit with 48M of heap and generally search through very large
projects. The memory usage does grow, but I don't run out of memory; and
eventually the GC kicks in and cleans up everything.

If you could give more information, like what's the size of the list of
files you're looking through, how many search results you're getting,
etc, then we'd be able to have a better idea of what's going on.

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Marcelo Vanzin
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