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Jozsef Kadlecsik a =E9crit :

>When the hash size is about 20 million entries, that alone requires ~80M=
B
>physical memory. If resizing is triggered, at least two times of that
>amount of memory is needed temporarily.
> =20
>
The problem was comming from the --probes parameter which was set to 2 !
Increasing its value to 10, reduced the hashsize up to a factor 100.

Thanks !