Re: irc usage..

On Tue, 23 May 2006, Martin Langhoff wrote:

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, 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.

My conversion is only up to September 2002, but if it doesn't suddenly hit 
some huge growth spurt, I wouldn't expect it to run out of memory. The CVS 
server process itself is tiny, and doesn't seem to grow at all.

As to packing, it doing something like

	while :
	do
		sleep 30

		#
		# repack roughly every 25600 objects
		#
		n=$(ls .git/objects/00 2> /dev/null | wc -l)
		if [ $n -gt 100 ]; then
			git repack -a
			#
			# Stupid sleep to make sure that nobody is still
			# using any unpacked objects after the pack got
			# generated
			#
			sleep 10
			git prune-packed
		fi
	done

or similar (the above is totally untested - I've just done it by hand a 
few times) should work. It's perfectly ok to repack the archive even while 
the cvsimport script is adding more data and changing it.

		Linus