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Tilman Hausherr commented on PDFBOX-4188:
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I like the new method, but I wonder if the enum is future-proof, if more
options will be coming.
I also like the test in the patch. But it should use the target directory, not
the src directory. We can't use the PDF file, we'll need another, maybe from
existing test files. Maybe choose one from pdfbox\src\test\resources\input,
e.g. PDFBOX-3110-poems-beads.pdf. Or create one using something from "Hamlet".
> "Maximum allowed scratch file memory exceeded." Exception when merging large
> number of small PDFs
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>
> Key: PDFBOX-4188
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-4188
> Project: PDFBox
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Affects Versions: 2.0.9, 3.0.0 PDFBox
> Reporter: Gary Potagal
> Priority: Major
> Attachments: PDFBOX-4188-breakingTest.zip,
> PDFMergerUtility.java-20180412.patch
>
>
>
> Am 06.04.2018 um 23:10 schrieb Gary Potagal:
>
> We wanted to address one more merge issue in
> org.apache.pdfbox.multipdf.PDFMergerUtility#mergeDocuments(org.apache.pdfbox.io.MemoryUsageSetting).
> We need to merge a large number of small files. We use mixed mode, memory
> and disk for cache. Initially, we would often get "Maximum allowed scratch
> file memory exceeded.", unless we turned off the check by passing "-1" to
> org.apache.pdfbox.io.MemoryUsageSetting#MemoryUsageSetting. I believe, this
> is what the users that opened PDFBOX-3721 where running into.
> Our research indicates that the core issue with the memory model is that
> instead of sharing a single cache, it breaks it up into equal sized fixed
> partitions based on the number of input + output files being merged. This
> means that each partition must be big enough to hold the final output file.
> When 400 1-page files are merged, this creates 401 partitions, but each of
> which needs to be big enough to hold the final 400 pages. Even worse, the
> merge algorithm needs to keep all files open until the end.
> Given this, near the end of the merge, we're actually caching 400 x 1-page
> input files, and 1 x 400-page output file, or 801 pages.
> However, with the partitioned cache, we need to declare room for 401 x
> 400-pages, or 160,400 pages in total when specifying "maxStorageBytes". This
> would be a very high number, usually in GIGs.
>
> Given the current limitation that we need to keep all the input files open
> until the output file is written (HUGE), we came up with 2 options. (See
> PDFBOX-4182)
>
> 1. Good: Split the cache in ½, give ½ to the output file, and segment the
> other ½ across the input files. (Still keeping them open until then end).
> 2. Better: Dynamically allocate in 16 page (64K) chunks from memory or disk
> on demand, release cache as documents are closed after merge. This is our
> current implementation till PDFBOX-3999, PDFBOX-4003 and PDFBOX-4004 are
> addressed.
>
> We would like to submit our current implementation as a Patch to 2.0.10 and
> 3.0.0, unless this is already addressed.
>
> Thank you
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