memory consumption problem as collections get bigger

[Doruk Fisek]

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 07:03:54 -0700, Robby Stephenson
<robby at periapsis.org> :

> Tellico holds all the collection data in RAM once the file is opened.
> That's obviously not going to work well with really big collections,
> it's just the way I wrote it. If you delete your data file once it's
> loaded, Tellico can save it again completely.
Even if you store all of the collection in RAM, 250 MB consumption for
a 16 MB xml file (not zipped) seems too much. It's nearly 15 times the
original size.

> Are there images in the tc file? That's what really bogs things down,
> too.
There are none. I know it does, that's why I didn't put any (though I
wanted to).

                   Doruk

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