Memory usage

[J. Landman Gay]

On 7/4/13 2:52 AM, Mark Wilcox wrote:
> jacque at hyperactivesw.com wrote:
>
>>> You're a good guesser. I just asked, and the client thinks a
>>> 2-gig average is about right.
>
>> From what you described of the memory usage of your system, it's
>> not going to get even remotely close to needing swap on a PC with
>> 2GB RAM (video decoding only requires enough RAM for the codec and
>> a few frames at a time).  If it really is a problem (e.g. much less
>> than 2GB available) and you can't cache stacks to the disk then you
>> could write your own in memory caching system that destroys the
>> least recently used one when you go past a certain number of stacks
>> downloaded.

That's what I wanted to hear, thanks. Deleting the oldest files is 
actually in their specs but I didn't want to have to track that.

They have some ancient, decrepit Windows machines to test on so I think 
we'll find out soon enough if I'm worrying for nothing. I hope so.


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