From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2007 21:40:49 GMT
Subject: Re: RAM consumption when working with the gcc repo
Message-ID: <20071207214049.GB11613@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <20071207213928.GA11613@coredump.intra.peff.net>

On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 04:39:28PM -0500, Jeff King wrote:

> Keep in mind that you are trying many different deltas, which are being
> held in memory, to find the right one and generate the 330MB file. And
> when you multiply that times N threads going at once, _each one_ is
> using a bunch of memory.
> 
> As Nico suggested, you could probably drop the memory usage by reducing
> the size of the delta cache.

Sorry, I clearly need to start reading to the ends of threads before
getting involved; I think Nico has already explained this with actual
numbers later on.

-Peff