I am running a Workspace and after a while it gives an error and as if the memory had burst, is there any way to control memory?
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Control FME Desktop memory usage
Best answer by david_r
My top six tips, in no particular order off the top of my head:
- Unblock your transformers as much as possible
- If you have multiple writers, replace them with FeatureWriters
- Only read what you need, where-clauses are your friend
- Let the database do the heavy lifting, e.g. a join on two database tables is a whole lot quicker than a FeatureMerger
- Only keep the attributes you need at each step of the way (AttributeKeeper, yay)
- Try to avoid the ListExploder on huge numbers of features/items, if possible
Also, consider 64-bit FME.
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