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| author | Ben Johnson <benbjohnson@yahoo.com> | 2014-09-15 11:09:55 -0600 |
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| committer | Ben Johnson <benbjohnson@yahoo.com> | 2014-09-15 11:09:55 -0600 |
| commit | 7022ade6e6fc69d1b013e76bc97d298eca13a080 (patch) | |
| tree | 560a4dfd9f1fa079b7b1e7362e136fe3d7ea7afc | |
| parent | Merge pull request #252 from extemporalgenome/patch-1 (diff) | |
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Add caveat for memory usage.
This commit adds a caveat for high memory usage shown by processes with large
Bolt databases. This is expected behavior and is handled by the OS page cache.
| -rw-r--r-- | README.md | 7 |
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@@ -429,6 +429,13 @@ Here are a few things to note when evaluating and using Bolt: more than 100,000 key/value pairs into a single new bucket in a single transaction is not advised. +* Bolt uses a memory-mapped file so the underlying operating system handles the + caching of the data. Typically, the OS will cache as much of the file as it + can in memory and will release memory as needed to other processes. This means + that Bolt can show very high memory usage when working with large databases. + However, this is expected and the OS will release memory as needed. Bolt can + handle databases much larger than the available physical RAM. + ## Other Projects Using Bolt |