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What is the TM size limit in MBs/GBs and/or TUs, in Studio 2017?

Michael Beijer

Think I asked somewhere recently, but can't remember. What is the maximum TM size in MBs/GBs and/or TUs, in Studio 2017? IN DVX£, e.g., it is 2GB per individual file, due to constraints of the underlying database system.

 

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    What are you talking about Michael? 2GB would be around the limit for a filebased Multiterm termbase as this is essentially MSAccess. But an SDLTM is SQL and this is a different story. I don't know what the limit is here, but I reckon it's probably going to be capped by performance. I have seen translation memories in excess of 2GB, but they are rare as this is getting ridiculously large and not likely for a Freelance translator unless they are importing TMs collated from wherever they can find them.

    And if you talk about server it's a different story again as the capacity is much increased.

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    Hi Michael,

    I PM'ed you about this yesterday, thinking I couldn't reply to this topic, but I was wrong. So I'll share my answer to anyone who wants to read this:

    Last week I was doing a project with mixed content. I used a single large TM of 5,98 GB together with some 'smaller' TM's with a total of about 3GB (some of which had fragment align) in Studio 2017. So that's an impressive amount of 9GB of TM. The fragment align is a different matter. That 6GB TM, I don't even dare to dream about uplifting that one. I'm using UpLifted TM's of about 2GB each.

    With large TM's you need to plan your setup really well. For some pages of the document I would use this total of 9GB in real time, so not just for pretranslation. I got mixed performance results, sometime 3 seconds, sometimes 20. (both for TM matching and concordance searches). When I got to a section where only one topic was relevant, I'd unselect some TM's in the project settings. I'd never needed so many TM's before, but this time it was a text with mixed content and I had to make sure I was making references to the right court rulings, terminology, etc....

    I now realize that your question is on a slightly different topic, but at least my answer is somewhat related :)
  • 0 in reply to Toon Theuwis

    Hi,

    I came across a source for some large TMs last night so had a little play upgrading a TMX containing 9.5 mullion TUs... thought you might be interested:

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