Knit record cache considered harmful

John Whitley whitley at acm.org
Fri Jun 23 07:29:14 BST 2006


Aaron Bentley wrote:
> Many people have noted that building large trees eats gobs and gobs of
> memory.  I suspected the problem was knit caching.

Hmm, sounds like this might be the root cause of bug 43702 [1] for  
bzr branch throwing a MemoryError, where the working tree in question  
was about 1 GB.  I can certainly give this a run on my test case to  
see if turning off knit caches fixes this problem...

-- John 

[1] https://launchpad.net/products/bzr/+bug/43702






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