Re: Something is broken in repack

From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Date: Dec 8, 2007, 04:30 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.0.99999.0712072328420.555@xanadu.home>
In-Reply-To: <9e4733910712072022na3369caob48d4b26a56224ea@mail.gmail.com>

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.

Nicolas

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