From: Juliusz Chroboczek Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 15:54:32 GMT Subject: Re: Re: Darcs-git pulling from the Linux repo: a Linux VM question Message-ID: <7iu0lskyfb.fsf@lanthane.pps.jussieu.fr> In-Reply-To: >> For now, does anyone know how I can tune the Linux VM to get a 720 >> MB process to run reliably in 640 MB of main memory? > I really think you're screwed. Thanks, that's what I needed to know. > You _really_ shouldn't read in files that you don't absolutely need. Ahem... you don't expect me to embark on hacking Git without at least understanding that, do you? > That's really the biggest point of git: using the sha1 for naming the > objects is really all about "descrive the contents using 20 bytes instead > of by reading the contents". Here we're speaking about the initial import. Committed on 17 April 2005 by Linus Torvalds, with the comment ``Let it rip''. 220 MB of changed files in a single commit. 2 minutes real time just to read all the files, never mind doing anything useful with them. To put it mildly, Darcs is not optimised for that sort of usage. > Sorry. You really need to fix darcs. That's exactly why we're so interested in your repository. Juliusz