Re: irc usage..

> On 6/5/06, Alec Warner <antarus@gentoo.org> wrote:
> 
>> Ok the box this was running on had issues, so I switched to using
>> pearl.amd64.dev.gentoo.org, a dual core amd64 X2 4600+ with 4 gigs of
>> ram and plenty of disk.  The "problem" now is just converstion time...30
>> hours and I'm into 2004-09-17...but it's been in 2004 all day, seems
>> like most of the commits are in the last three years.  Are there
>> architectural issues with doing this in parallel?
> 
> 
> I don't think you can do this in parallel. What I would do is remove
> the -a from the git-repack invocation. It does hurt import times quite
> a bit -- just do a git-repack -a -d when it's done.

> 
> And... having said that, there is still a memory leak somehow,
> somewhere. It's been evading me for 2 weeks now, so I feel an idiot
> now. Not too bad in general, but it shows clearly in the gentoo and
> mozilla imports.

> You are forced to do it in a sequence because cvsps only tells you
> about the files added/removed/changed in a commit -- you need the
> ancestor to have a view of what the whole tree looked like. The only
> room for parallelism I see is to fork off new processes to work on
> branches in parallel.