Lucene 2.9.0/3.0.1 memory leaks

If you are experiencing high memory comsumption with Lucene 2.9.0/3.0.1 it could be due… ... to a recently reported and fixed bug in StandardTokenizer where JFlex generated code was expanding a buffer (zzBuffer) and never trimming it down Uploaded with plasq's Skitch! ... to another recently reported and fixed bug where IndexWriter held references to Readers used in your Fields, (and if you have apache tika's reader, those can take up a lot of space) Uploaded with plasq's Skitch!

April 10, 2010

Better memory management in Firefox 3

It seems that the Mozilla groups is making advances in the memory management of Firefox 3. They are adding a XPCOM cycle collector, that it seems is a form of garbage collector. Hope it helps in reducing the firefox memory comsumption and slowness. Via: gemal.dk

June 29, 2007

Vista memory management

Interesting link about Vista aggresive memory management (aka SuperFetch) Coding Horror: Why Does Vista Use All My Memory?

February 28, 2007

Sony PSP MP4 filenames

If you’re new to the PSP you must remember when copying files video files (created with 3GP converter or PSP Video 9) to your PSP that M4Vxxxxx.MP4 files go to the MP_ROOT/100MNV01 dir of the Memory Stick and the MAQxxxxx.MP4 files go to MP_ROOT/101ANV01 dir. M4Vxxxxx files are conventional MPEG-4 files and MAQxxxxx are MPEG-4 files using AVC codec (recommended).

February 25, 2007