Re: [analog-help] Memory usage,

2004-06-24 Thread analog-help
meminfo (and top, etc.) on Linux will always look like that. The OS does not report allocated memory as "free" once it has been allocated. Rather, it will be listed as "used" but in actuality is available to other process to use. It's something like a lazy garbage collection -- it only cleans u

RE: [analog-help] Memory usage,

2004-06-24 Thread analog-help
>This is surely impossible. It's under the control of the OS, not the program, >and any OS which didn't free memory when programs quit would crash very quickly indeed. >Maybe whatever tool you are using isn't reporting the free memory accurately> >(or at least, not reporting a useful statistic). [

RE: [analog-help] Memory usage,

2004-06-24 Thread analog-help
Aha - good question! Sorry. Linux x86 - Redhat 7.2 Analog 5.32 Cheers lee -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Aengus Sent: 24 June 2004 14:59 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [analog-help] Memory usage, Lee Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote

Re: [analog-help] Memory usage,

2004-06-24 Thread analog-help
On Thu, 24 Jun 2004, Lee Evans wrote: > > However, the memory analog uses at run time does not seem to be freed > after usage - I have just processed a logfile of around 100MB and > 350,000 entries. I now have only 28mb of free memory, and around 1Gb > used. > This is surely impossible. It's under

Re: [analog-help] Memory usage,

2004-06-24 Thread analog-help
Lee Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Any pointers or suggestions you can give me to help pinpoint the cause > of, and remedy the issues I'm seeing would be gratefully received. What Operating System are you using? Aengus +

[analog-help] Memory usage,

2004-06-24 Thread analog-help
Hi all, I know this is a subject that has been discussed in some details previously, I have looked through the archives and found lots of useful information, some of which does appear to have helped with my problem. I note however that for many people who are reporting memory usage problems they

Re: [analog-help] too many args

2004-06-24 Thread analog-help
On 24 Jun 2004 at 12:59, Aengus wrote: > > There should be a space between your arguments - You got it in one. Thanks ever so much. > > REQALIAS *1.html "Shop full payment" > > ("Shop full payment" is a single argument - Analog was parsing your > entry as *1.html"Shop for the first argument,

Re: [analog-help] too many args

2004-06-24 Thread analog-help
Simon Warner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I cannot find this error in the docs. Please could someone help me. > > I have a reqalias that is generating the error below and don't know > how to fix it. > > analog: Warning C: Too many arguments for configuration command: > ignoring end of line starting

RE: [analog-help] too many args

2004-06-24 Thread analog-help
Simon, I am newish to analog so forgive me if this is saying the obvious, but could be something to do with the quote marks in the strings? Analog might not like them? Very best wishes, Paul Richards BBC Gateway Team - Statistics and Search Internal ext: 89354 -Original Message- From

[analog-help] too many args

2004-06-24 Thread analog-help
I cannot find this error in the docs. Please could someone help me. I have a reqalias that is generating the error below and don't know how to fix it. analog: Warning C: Too many arguments for configuration command: ignoring end of line starting: REQALIAS *1.html"Shop full payment" analog: Warn