Re: [mv] Re: MV 4.04a - Memory usage

[Kyle Cook <kyle@invisio.com>]

At 10:05 AM 7/12/01, you wrote:

>I have been working on a simple database of products for one of my
>customers and the database is only about 800 items.  However when the
>following search is processed.
>
>    [page search="
>         sf=category
>         tf=title
>         se=[cat-data cat selector]
>         ml=7
>         va=perf_group=[cat-data cat selector]
>         "
>        ]<center><IMG SRC="[cat-data cat linkimage]" ALT="[cat-data cat
>name]" BORDER=0></center>[/page]
>
>It will get an internal server error if I allow the ML=  line to be above
>7.  When the search is done there are 490 out of the total of 800 items
>found in this search.
>
>When it was alot less hits (say 200) I could have the ML= set up to
>about 20.  When the hits  got to around 400 it had to be brought down
>to ML=11 or so.  Now its got to be at ML=7.  As I add more items the ML=
>needs to be lower and lower but it seems this is dependant on the hits
>found. Any other search where the hits are low, I can set the ML much
>higher.
>
>Anyone know why this would be happening.  MV seems to eat tons of ram when
>it is doing this.  Is there something I can edit in catalog.cfg or
>something else to make it use less ram.  I cant figure out why it would be
>eating this much ram and dying PLUS why the ML= must be set so low.
>
>I am running MV 4.04a, BSDI 3.1, Apache 1.3.12 on a Pentium 266 with
>128megs ram.  System runs flawlessly with everything else.
>
>


My wild guess is it might have something to do with the results page.
IE tons of [if] blocks or other "intense" operations are being done for each
"hit" ......

Maybe post the relevant block of your results page.

Kyle (KC)

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