On Fri, 2 Aug 2002, Nikolay Raspopov wrote:

> Hello!
> 
> I try merge two indexes 700000 words and 40000 words, after allocating 1.2
> Gb (!!!) of swapfile swish-e crash with "out of memory" error. Help.


You might search the list archives for this topic.

Basically, merge does not work well at this point -- it doesn't take
advantage of the compression features used in normal indexing.

The best solution for you right now is to use -f index1 index2 while
searching.


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Bill Moseley moseley@hank.org