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diff --git a/cjp/cjp/scripts/runScrapers.py b/cjp/cjp/scripts/runScrapers.py
index e79ccf1..6c989c4 100755
--- a/cjp/cjp/scripts/runScrapers.py
+++ b/cjp/cjp/scripts/runScrapers.py
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ for s in scrapers:
 # remove original HTML for articles older than two weeks
 now = datetime.now()
 keepdate = now - timedelta(days=14)
-old_articles = Article.objects.filter(created__lte = keepdate).exclude(orig_html = '')
+old_articles = Article.objects.filter(created__lte = keepdate).exclude(orig_html = '').iterator()
 for article in old_articles:
     article.orig_html = ''
     article.save()
@@ -37,8 +37,14 @@ for article in old_articles:
 # Only keep 30 days worth of logs.  Should be sufficient for any
 # debugging purposes.
 keepdate = now - timedelta(days=30)
-FeedLog.objects.filter(created__lte = keepdate).delete()
-
+number_of_objects = 100
+count = FeedLog.objects.filter(created__lte=keepdate).count()
+for i in xrange(0, count, number_of_objects):
+    smaller_queryset = FeedLog.objects.filter(
+        created__lte=keepdate)[i: i + number_of_objects]
+    for feed_log in smaller_queryset:
+        feed_log.delete()
+#  FeedLog.objects.filter(created__lte = keepdate).delete()
 
 # clean up the tables
 for table in (Article, FeedLog):