Re: irc usage..

From: Donnie Berkholz <spyderous@gentoo.org>
Date: May 22, 2006, 19:09 UTC
Message-ID: <44720C66.6040304@gentoo.org>
In-Reply-To: <46a038f90605220554y569c11b9p24027772bd2ee79a@mail.gmail.com>

Martin Langhoff wrote:

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> On 5/22/06, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> wrote:
>> On Mon, 22 May 2006, Martin Langhoff wrote:
>> >
>> > Or a slow leak in Perl? The 5.8.8 release notes do talk about some
>> > leaks being fixed, but this 5.8.8 isn't making a difference.
>> >
>> > Working on it.
>>
>> Thanks. Looking at what I did convert, that horrid gentoo CVS tree is
>> interesting. The resulting (partial) git history has 93413 commits and
>> 850,000+ objects total, all in a totally linear history.
> 
> Ok, so there's 3 patches posted that should help narrow down the
> problem. There's a new -L <imit> so that Donnie can get his stuff done
> by running it in a while(true) loop. Not proud of it, but hey.
> 
> And there are two patches that I suspect may fix the leak. After
> applying them, the cvsimport process grows up to ~13MB and then tapers
> off, at least as far as my patience has gotten me. It's late on this
> side of the globe so I'll look at the results tomorrow morning.

OK, I started a new run without -L, and I'm watching it in top right now. The cvsimport seems to be doing alright, but the cvs server process sucks about another megabyte of virtual every 4-5 seconds. This is a bit concerning since I don't have any swap. Shortly after it hit 670M, I got "Cannot allocate memory" again. I've got a gig of RAM, and around 300M was resident in various processes at the time.

So it seems the problem is in cvs itself. I will try another run with -L now.

Thanks, Donnie