>> The databases appear to be about 450MB-600MB. > > Not bad, but what operation were you performing on the database at the > time? complex queries with joins and such will drive memory/processor > usage up. > I was selecting a database from the drop down menu. >> On a side note I had a requirement from the dev group here to set php to >> a >> maximum memory usage of 1GB due to the large files that are being parsed > > Holy CRAP that's huge. Is this a real need, or is this just the dev > group wanting to not fix a problem? This seems like it could very > quickly get out of hand if more than a user or two decide to kick off > similar processes. > I have no idea where the file comes from but it is a 600-800MB delimited txt document. They use a web page to parse the file and create an Excel spread sheet. I don't know what the txt file contains or why they need it converted to xls. In any case I am told to make the system capable of meeting the dev teams needs. -- Matthew Martz CentOS Mirror Admin mdmartz at gflug.net