From: Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 26 May 2006 00:42:09 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cvsimport: introduce -L<imit> option to workaround memory leaks
Message-ID: <46a038f90605251742p2435ae23k8bfbb98409a30c1c@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0605221926270.3697@g5.osdl.org>

On 5/23/06, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> wrote:
>
> This stupid patch on top of yours seems to make git happier. It's
> disgusting, I know, but it just repacks things every kilo-commit.

Call me slow, but I am still running and rerunning that gentoo import. ;-)

The current import has reached ~200K commits, and .git is 450MB, while
the checked out tree is 230MB (680MB with .git). At this stage, git
repack -a -d is too memory hungry. I just had to kill it after it took
2GB and was still growing fast. So I have dropped the -a in my test
import for the time being.

Other than that, we are doing ~6K commits per hour on a 2GB 2GHz Opteron.

cheers,


martin