Hello Bryant, are you using any options on `pyarrow.parquet.read_table` or a possible `to_pandas` afterwards?
Uwe On Wed, Apr 25, 2018, at 7:27 PM, Bryant Menn wrote: > I tried reading a Parquet file (<200MB, lots of text with snappy) using > read_table and saw the memory usage peak over 8GB before settling back down > to ~200MB. This surprised me as I was expecting to be able to handle a > Parquet file of this size with much less RAM (doing some processing with > smaller VMs). > > I am not sure if this expected, but I thought I might check with everyone > here and learn something new. Poking around it seems to be related with > ParquetReader.read_all? > > Thanks in advance, > Bryant
