Re: irc usage..

Martin Langhoff wrote:

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

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On Mon, 22 May 2006, Martin Langhoff wrote:

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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