Bzr and large repositories

[Matthieu Moy]

Martin Pool <mbp at canonical.com> writes:

> On 26 Oct 2006, Nicholas Allen <nick.allen at onlinehome.de> wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I remember reading a while ago that bzr used huge amounts of memory on 
>> large repositories. Is this still the case? We have a very large svn 
>> repository (about 40,000 revisions and many Gb in size). Do you think 
>> this will be hard for bzr to handle?
>
> That would be hard for bzr 0.12.  We're working on improving Bazaar to
> scale up to repositories of that size or larger.

That said, for the RAM consumption problem, there was a problem with
some overly greedy cache which has been solved a while ago (I believe
this is what eliminated bzr for OpenSolaris). So it'll probably be
slow, but shouldn't totally blow up.

-- 
Matthieu