>Sounds like it may just be trying to load the entire 187 MB into memory
No. My initial approach was to attempt to load the entire file. Obviously, that would consume a lot of memory and cause problems. Instead, I'm using the <cfloop file=""> process to load one line of xml into memory at a time for processing (thankfully each child element of the parent exists on its own unique line). Reading http://forums.adobe.com/thread/43968 makes it seem as if the GCOverheadLimit error is being thrown because the java garbage collector is taking to long to clean up memory; this is consistent with the behavior I have seen. If I load up multiple files to be simultaneously processed (with parallel threads) the smaller files finish fine but the filesize for the large file outputs slows to a crawl the closer jrun.exe gets to the maximum heap size. Finally the GCOverheadLimit error is thrown, the <cfthread action="join"> ops runs, and I see the dumped error. It's as if the garbage collector can't effectively clean up memory allocated to threaded processes; or at least can't release it until all threads are joined together? Belch. I had so much hope for the parallel processing but it just seems to be obscuring and creating more problems than if I just did a straightforward, linear processing of files. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:327531 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
