Martin Langhoff wrote: > On 5/22/06, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Mon, 22 May 2006, Martin Langhoff wrote: >> > >> > Or a slow leak in Perl? The 5.8.8 release notes do talk about some >> > leaks being fixed, but this 5.8.8 isn't making a difference. >> > >> > Working on it. >> >> Thanks. Looking at what I did convert, that horrid gentoo CVS tree is >> interesting. The resulting (partial) git history has 93413 commits and >> 850,000+ objects total, all in a totally linear history. > > Ok, so there's 3 patches posted that should help narrow down the > problem. There's a new -L <imit> so that Donnie can get his stuff done > by running it in a while(true) loop. Not proud of it, but hey. > > And there are two patches that I suspect may fix the leak. After > applying them, the cvsimport process grows up to ~13MB and then tapers > off, at least as far as my patience has gotten me. It's late on this > side of the globe so I'll look at the results tomorrow morning. OK, I started a new run without -L, and I'm watching it in top right now. The cvsimport seems to be doing alright, but the cvs server process sucks about another megabyte of virtual every 4-5 seconds. This is a bit concerning since I don't have any swap. Shortly after it hit 670M, I got "Cannot allocate memory" again. I've got a gig of RAM, and around 300M was resident in various processes at the time. So it seems the problem is in cvs itself. I will try another run with -L now. Thanks, Donnie
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