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Originally Posted by clockmaker
Problem with Catalog in Calibre (Sorry about posting it in the normal forum first!)
I have tried about 5 times (with or without tags) to make a catalog (.mobi) of my rather large library; but without success. After about 2 hours of running I get the following error (only the last dozen lines given here):
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MemoryError
Error in sys.exitfunc:
MemoryError
The database file is about 14 MB. Is there a limit on the size of the library? It appears that Catalog data is all used within the Ram. I am running it on 4 core (Intel 9300) machine with 4 GB of Ram. OR am I doing something wrong.
Thanks for any help.
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A couple of clues to consider.
As @dwanthny stated in your
original thread, it's not the size of your database, but the number of books in your database. If you're running for two hours and then running out of memory, I'm assuming that your database is pretty large, perhaps > 20,000 books?
If the system is running out of memory, this would be the first reported instance that I'm aware of. It's certainly possible. I recall some users early on describing catalog builds of ~8 hours, but they were successful. Check the earlier postings in this thread.
One thing that many users have done is to create smaller catalogs covering parts of their database. For example, you might have one called 'Reference Books'. You would filter the database before initiating the catalog build, usually based upon a tag set.
Try building some much smaller catalogs to make sure the problem doesn't lie elsewhere.
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