Re: irc usage..

On 6/5/06, Alec Warner [off-list ref] wrote:

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I don't think you can do this in parallel. What I would do is remove
the -a from the git-repack invocation. It does hurt import times quite
a bit -- just do a git-repack -a -d when it's done.

Only repack at the end then? disk space isn't an issue here so I'll give
that a shot.

Not exactly -- by removing the -a from the git-repack invocation what
you get is cheap "partial" packing rather than a full repack. This is
somewhat inefficient disk-wise, perhaps by 10% or so. But full repacks
get more and more expensive as the repo grows.

So you don't need to run git-repack -a -d at the end, but it will be a
good measure to see how compact the packing gets.

quoted

And... having said that, there is still a memory leak somehow,
somewhere. It's been evading me for 2 weeks now, so I feel an idiot
now. Not too bad in general, but it shows clearly in the gentoo and
mozilla imports.

30565 antarus   17   0  470m 456m 1640 S   14 11.6 234:23.38
git-cvsimport
30566 antarus   16   0 6753m 147m  752 S    7  3.7 120:27.06 cvs

I'm on cvs-1.11.12 and the git version of git

Yep, I see roughly the same. It grows slowly and I don't know why :(

I'll keep chugging on this one; it won't be the final import as I
haven't used the complete Authors file, so I will try the repacking
optimization next time I do an import.

Cool. If it dies for any reason, just do

  git-update-ref refs/heads/master refs/heads/origin
  git-update-ref HEAD origin
  git-checkout

You only need to do this the first time -- after that, the core heads
are set. Rerun the script and it will pick up where it left. If it
dies again, just do git-checkout to see the latest files.

(Above, replace origin with your -o option if you are using it. I
normally use -o cvshead.)



martin