From: Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 08 Dec 2007 05:01:13 GMT
Subject: Re: Something is broken in repack
Message-ID: <9e4733910712072101k4583c0afsea368253fe1cf706@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.0.99999.0712072328420.555@xanadu.home>

On 12/7/07, Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 7 Dec 2007, Jon Smirl wrote:
>
> > Does the gcc repo contain some giant objects? Why wasn't the memory
> > freed after their chain was processed?
>
> It should be.
>
> > Most of the last 10% is being done on a single CPU. There must be a
> > chain of giant objects that is unbalancing everything.
>
> I'm about to send a patch to fix the thread balancing for real this
> time.

Something is really broken in the last 5% of that repo. I have been
processing at 97% for 30 minutes without moving to 98%.

-- 
Jon Smirl
jonsmirl@gmail.com