diff --git a/marginalia_nu/src/main/java/nu/marginalia/util/StringPool.java b/marginalia_nu/src/main/java/nu/marginalia/util/StringPool.java
index 5911a497..7ab9b651 100644
--- a/marginalia_nu/src/main/java/nu/marginalia/util/StringPool.java
+++ b/marginalia_nu/src/main/java/nu/marginalia/util/StringPool.java
@@ -1,20 +1,33 @@
 package nu.marginalia.util;
 
+import it.unimi.dsi.fastutil.objects.Object2LongOpenHashMap;
+
+import java.util.Arrays;
 import java.util.HashMap;
 
 public class StringPool {
-    private final HashMap<String, String> words;
 
-    public StringPool() {
-        this.words  = new HashMap<>(1000);
+    private final HashMap<String, String> words;
+    private final Object2LongOpenHashMap<String> ages;
+    private final int maxCap;
+
+    long idx;
+
+    private StringPool(int capacity, int maxCap) {
+        this.ages  = new Object2LongOpenHashMap<>(capacity);
+        this.words = new HashMap<>(capacity);
+        this.maxCap = maxCap;
     }
 
-    public StringPool(int capacity) {
-        words = new HashMap<>(capacity);
+    public static StringPool create(int capacity) {
+        return new StringPool(capacity, capacity * 10);
     }
 
     public String internalize(String str) {
+        prune();
+
         final String ret = words.putIfAbsent(str, str);
+        ages.put(ret, idx++);
 
         if (null == ret)
             return str;
@@ -22,6 +35,37 @@ public class StringPool {
         return ret;
     }
 
+    public String[] internalize(String[] str) {
+
+        for (int i = 0; i < str.length; i++) {
+            str[i] = internalize(str[i]);
+        }
+
+        return str;
+    }
+
+    public void prune() {
+
+        if (words.size() < maxCap)
+            return;
+
+        long[] ageValues = ages.values().toLongArray();
+        Arrays.sort(ageValues);
+
+        long cutoff = ageValues[ageValues.length - maxCap / 10];
+
+        words.clear();
+        ages.forEach((word, cnt) -> {
+            if (cnt >= cutoff) {
+                words.put(word, word);
+            }
+        });
+        ages.clear();
+        words.forEach((w,w2) -> {
+            ages.put(w, idx);
+        });
+    }
+
     public void flush() {
         words.clear();
     }
diff --git a/marginalia_nu/src/main/java/nu/marginalia/wmsa/edge/converting/processor/DomainProcessor.java b/marginalia_nu/src/main/java/nu/marginalia/wmsa/edge/converting/processor/DomainProcessor.java
index d9ff7ef1..e5ed00e5 100644
--- a/marginalia_nu/src/main/java/nu/marginalia/wmsa/edge/converting/processor/DomainProcessor.java
+++ b/marginalia_nu/src/main/java/nu/marginalia/wmsa/edge/converting/processor/DomainProcessor.java
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ public class DomainProcessor {
 
             fixBadCanonicalTags(crawledDomain.doc);
 
-            StringPool stringPool = new StringPool(1000 + 100 * crawledDomain.doc.size());
+            StringPool stringPool = StringPool.create(1000 + 100 * crawledDomain.doc.size());
 
             for (var doc : crawledDomain.doc) {
                 var processedDoc = documentProcessor.process(doc, crawledDomain);