bzr branch is slow and memory-hungry (just a data point)

[Robert Collins]

On Wed, 2005-09-07 at 09:36 -0400, Michael Alan Dorman wrote:
> I'm really not expecting things to be heavily optimized at this
> juncture, but I thought I would report on my experiences with 'bzr
> branch' on a non-trivial project tree I recently converted from cvs
> (where it's got a couple of years worth of history) using tailor.
> ...

> The branch process takes 4.5 minutes, during which the bzr process
> dominates the CPU (not that there's any competition on my laptop) and
> balloons to 425MB.

That sounds like there is a leak of some sort there. By leak I mean
references we dont need being kept around. It would be good to track
that down and fix it.

> I must say, though, I've been looking at bzr for projects that are
> currently using both bazaar and cvs, and it generally looks good in
> both situations.

Glad to hear it.

Rob

-- 
GPG key available at: <http://www.robertcollins.net/keys.txt>.
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 189 bytes
Desc: This is a digitally signed message part
Url : https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/bazaar/attachments/20050908/272c2b90/attachment.pgp