[Zope] Re: [Zope-dev] Zcatalog bloat problem (berkeleydb is a solution?)

[Chris McDonough]

> Chris McDonough wrote:
> >
> > This purpose aligns well with those of the ArmoredCatalog proposal as
well..
> > see http://dev.zope.org/Wikis/DevSite/Proposals/ArmoredCatalog .
> >
> > > But even using such a "lazy catalog awareness", you might get into
> > > trouble. Using the ZCatalog's "find objects" function, I hit the
limits
> > > of my Linux box: 640 MB RAM were not enough...
> >
> > This should not happen.  :-(
>
> Just to add another data point, we're still having issues if we
catalog-as-you
> go when trying to recreate our mailing list archives in Zope. As I
understand
> it, the guys managed to get it to work by importing 28,000 odd message and
then
> indexing, rather than indexing as each one was added. This was using Zope
2.3.2,
> should it be expected?

No.