Re: irc usage..

On 5/22/06, Linus Torvalds [off-list ref] wrote:

On Mon, 22 May 2006, Martin Langhoff wrote:

quoted

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.

(BTW, I typo-ed Linus' address in the git-send-email invocation. Will
resend to him separately)

I'll also prep a patch as Linus suggests to do auto-repacking while
the import runs so we don't eat up the harddisk.

git would basically cut down the disk usage for a live
repo by a factor of 7 or so.

_And_ I can do a "git log origin > /dev/null" in about 2.4 seconds. Take
that, CVS.

Heh. Faster Gitticat, Kill Kill Kill!




martin