Re: irc usage..

On 5/23/06, Linus Torvalds [off-list ref] 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