From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 17:43:55 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Speedup recursive by flushing index only once for all entries
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!