diff --git a/src/wikiq/__init__.py b/src/wikiq/__init__.py
index 25bb8d8..5047658 100755
--- a/src/wikiq/__init__.py
+++ b/src/wikiq/__init__.py
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 # original wikiq headers are: title articleid revid date_time anon
 # editor editor_id minor text_size text_entropy text_md5 reversion
 # additions_size deletions_size
+import gc
 import argparse
 import json
 import os.path
@@ -675,7 +676,7 @@ class WikiqParser:
                 if self.partition_namespaces is True:
                     writer = pq_writers[page.mwpage.namespace]
                 writer.write(pa.record_batch(row_buffer, schema=schema))
-
+                gc.collect()
             page_count += 1
 
         print(