Re: [PATCH] Speedup recursive by flushing index only once for all entries

From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date: Jan 11, 2007, 17:43 UTC
Message-ID: <81b0412b0701110943s274bfbcbkfea0fcb294ccb820@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0701110823300.3594@woody.osdl.org>

On 1/11/07, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> wrote:

> That said, I think we actually have another problem entirely:
>
> Look at "write_cache()", Junio: isn't it leaking memory like mad?

Unless it is used in some corner case not covered by tests - it looks like it does leak memory like mad. With the patch the memory usage for 44k-merge is more than halved!

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