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Re: Improve git-rev-list memory usage further

From
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date
Sep 16, 2005, 21:42 UTC
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On Fri, 16 Sep 2005, Linus Torvalds wrote:
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> Before:
> 	42934 minor pagefaults
>
> After:
> 
> 	26718 minor pagefaults

In case it wasn't clear, this is all in _addition_ to the previous fixes. It used to be ~48,000 pagefaults.

Still some low-hanging fruit to go after this. Object refs next, that will bring it down to ~18,500 pages for this load.

		Linus
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