Subject:SS Crash 4.6 103r: Working with Large XML Author:Lee Humphries Date:09 Mar 2003 06:49 PM
I've just had two separate crashes while working with a largish XML file (.5Gb).
1. Stylus had finished saving the file after indenting it. When I closed the documents window, Stylus crashed.
2. After restarting my computer I reopened the file in Stylus. Stylus reported an "Out of Memory" error - strange that - and only displayed around the first four lines out of the file, the remainder of the document window was not properly redrawn. I pressed the down arrow twice, and it seems that when the cursor was about to move to the third line Stylus crashed.
Subject:Re: SS Crash 4.6 103r: Working with Large XML Author:Minollo I. Date:10 Mar 2003 09:58 AM
>...
>I've just had two separate crashes while working with a largish XML file
>(.5Gb).
Half a GB is a pretty large size for a document to be edited in Stylus. I'm
not surprised you hit memory problems; not many machine configurations
would be able to handle that scenario...
The log file points to issues in memory allocation, as we could expect; I
guess the possible solutions (some of which could be unfeasible) are
limited to:
- Increase the physical memory of the machine
- Increase the size of the swap file
- Split the large document into smaller, manageable pieces
Subject:Re: SS Crash 4.6 103r: Working with Large XML Author:Lee Humphries Date:10 Mar 2003 06:52 PM
Hi Minollo,
>Half a GB is a pretty large size for a
>document to be edited in Stylus. I'm not
>surprised you hit memory problems; not many
>machine configurations would be able to
>handle that scenario...
Well, mine certainly couldn't ;-)
>The log file points to issues in memory
>allocation, as we could expect;
I thought as much.
I supplied the log file because I was dealing with an extreme situation and just in case it provided some pointers (no pun intended) to getting Stylus to cope with such things better.
Subject:Re: SS Crash 4.6 103r: Working with Large XML Author:Minollo I. Date:10 Mar 2003 10:32 PM
Thanks; and we did appreciate having a chance of taking a look at the log
files. Stylus Studio tries to handle situations like this; but
memory-related exceptions are in most cases pretty tough to recover from...
Subject:Re: SS Crash 4.6 103r: Working with Large XML Author:ra ta Date:04 Mar 2005 09:26 PM
You recommended "Split the large document into smaller, manageable pieces"<br>
<br>
I have a 2.5 GM XML file that I would like to view and extract data from.<br>
I have never viewed it. How do i go about splitting it into smaller files?