I also had this problem. To render a fo to pdf (around 100 pages) allocated more then 150 MB. When I got rid of references (in my case page-number-citations) the allocated memory was just 40 MB.
Regards, Jens Michail Bikoulis wrote: >You can read the following two related articles from the archives: > >http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=fop-dev&m=100034658526437&w=2 >http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=fop-dev&m=100482704631972&w=2 > >Your XML files sound huge, but if I remember correctly Mark Lillywhite has >had success with very large XML files. > >Regards, > >Mike > >-----Original Message----- >From: Maring, Steve [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >Sent: 9. november 2001 15:29 >To: FOP dev list (E-mail) >Subject: FOP memory usage > > >I'm using fop-0.20.1. > >I started with a 650KB XML file that I transformed into a 4MB XSL:FO file. >Running this file through FOP to generate a PDF used about 90MB of memory. > >Initial heap size: 807Kb >Current heap size: 91637Kb >Total memory used: 90829Kb > Memory use is indicative; no GC was performed > These figures should not be used comparatively >Total time used: 31265ms >Pages rendererd: 17 >Avg render time: 1839ms/page > > >I have XML files in excess of 15MB that need to be converted to PDF. >Assuming that a linear extrapolation is possible, it would suggest that the >JVM running the FOP process would need in excess of 2GB of memory for this >to avoid the dreaded java.lang.OutOfMemoryError. > >Are there any optimizations that can be done to FOP? > >Thanks. >-Steve Maring >Nielsen Media Research > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]