On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 05:54:50PM -0700, Hup Chen wrote:

>   I was trying to merge a 1.9GB index1 with a 800MB index2 under my Linux
> ext3 with LFS support, but it failed at "writing word hash", and left me a
> 2.6GB prop.temp.  Seem like it was some kind of overflow.
> 
> 
> Writing index entries ...
>   Writing word text: Complete
>   Writing word hash: ...err: Ran out of memory (could not allocate
> 99880956 more bytes)!

Likely.  



> > While you are in there you could convert to UTF-8, too.
> 
> Sorry if this is a stupid question, how to convert it to UTF-8?

Swish-e only works with 8 bit characters.


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Bill Moseley
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