#38 imdb

[Erasmus Talbot]

Dear XMLTV team,

when initializing the imdb databe on my computer, the
program seems to either hang at prepstage 5 or take
days to complete. It continues to use all CPU resources.

I know this is step is very memory intensive but I am
running it on a 1.4Ghz computer with 256 MB Ram which
I thought would be sufficient.

How long should this step normally take?
Is there a place I could directly download the fully
initialized and indexed database from?

I am running the binary distribution of xmltv, version
5.20 on windows 2000.

Many regards,

John

[Robert Eden]

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the TV_IMDB manpage warns it needs over 200MB to run well.

That is 200MB *FREE* for TV_IMDB use. The only way you'll
have that much free on a windows system is with 384M. 512M
is preferred.

I'll update the documentation to be clearer.

Robert