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Could the problem be related to UPDINDEX, AUTOOPTIMIZE and/or FTINDEX all being set to true on basexhttp but false on basexgui? I thought it wouldn't make a difference because the updates occur in main memory, but perhaps it does. Best, Jack On Wed, 7 Feb 2024, 4:03 pm Jack Steyn, <steynj...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I have a database about 200 MB in size made up of approximately 150 000 > documents of similar size and structure as children of the root node. > > When I run the following script in basexgui a significant amount of memory > is consumed (over 1 GB if I'm reading the display correctly), but I do get > a result: > > for $doc in db:get('docs') > return $doc update { > delete node .//*[local-name() = ('A', 'B', 'C', 'D')] > } > > When I run it over basexhttp I get a java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap > space. I have increased the memory available to the JVM to 4 GB but this > has not affected the failure of the script. > > How can I resolve this? Is there some rewriting of the script that would > help, or is it more specific to basexhttp? > > Many thanks, > > Jack > >