From: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 06:40:53 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH (WIP)] git-svn: cache SVN::Ra functions in a more Perl GC-friendly way
Message-ID: <20070425064053.GA4310@muzzle>
In-Reply-To: <462D544C.8010206@midwinter.com>

Steven Grimm <koreth@midwinter.com> wrote:
> FYI, with this patch, it actually dies more often. The stack seems to be 
> corrupted so I can't give you a useful stack trace, but here's what gdb 
> says:

Yikes.

Thanks for the feedback.  Sorry, I've still been busy with another big
project and haven't been able to track down this nasty bug.

If somebody wants to take a stab at working around it: hack up a patch
that forks a new child (reusing the main connection) for every revision
it needs to fetch.  It should still be as fast as normal on *nix
machines because fork() is fast and it won't have to renegotiate the
connection in every child, but memory leaks and corruption won't have a
chance to accumulate.

-- 
Eric Wong