[Swift-devel] Memory in Swift

[Jonathan Monette]

  Hello,
     I have two questions.

     1) What is the maximum value for SWIFT_HEAP_MAX?  Is it the maximum 
memory available on the machine?  If I ask for 8Gb will the Java heap 
space be 8Gb?
     2) Assuming that the above question does not fix my problem, what 
can be done to fix memory problems in Swift?  How should a Swift script 
be programmed to avoid these issues or is how Swift handles memory not 
optimal.  I have a set of about 4100 images that will be stitched 
together to form a mosaic.  The size of this set is 8.1Gb.  Right now in 
my sites file I set SWIFT_HEAP_MAX to 4096M(4Gb) but I am still getting 
out of memory errors with the Java heap space.  Is Swift just not able 
to scale up to this size of data yet?

-- 
Jon

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