On 5/23/06, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
Ok, initial results are promising. git-cvsimport appears to be still slowly growing, but it's at 40M (ie pretty tiny, considering that cvsps grew to 800+MB on this archive) and growth seems to actually be slowing.
That's great news. The cvs archive seems to have large commits every once in a while, so I suspect the residual memory growth may be related to those. Or to a smaller leak I haven't nailed. My test box is bloody slow it seems. I'll try and get hold of a faster machine to run this if I can.
As to packing, it doing something like
Given that we are running batch, it is safe and simple to stop the import, repack, prune-packed, and keep going. Don't think we'll win any races by running it in parallel ;-) cheers, martin - : send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html