Re: perforce import: git-p4 memory usage

From: Logan Kennelly <logank@sent.com>
Date: May 23, 2008, 22:27 UTC
Message-ID: <C3A347D5-E9E2-4AEB-96EC-179972224CB3@sent.com>
In-Reply-To: <H1SlcXmh.1211537268.4996380.lgd@diamand.org>

On May 23, 2008, at 3:07 AM, Luke Diamand wrote:

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> However, git-p4 appears to try to read all the repo into memory (and
> moreover seems to need about twice as much memory as repo).
>
> Once it runs out of swap, it dies (unsurprisingly).
>
> I think it's failing in readP4Files(), where it appears to read the
> entire repository in one go with "p4 -G -x - print".
>
> Can I just rework this function to do stuff one file at a time? Or is
> that dumb?

I don't know if they were ever accepted into the mainline, but see the series of patches submitted by Tommy Thorn.

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/72342

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