bzr and biiig repo

Alexander Belchenko bialix at ukr.net
Tue Dec 18 18:51:27 GMT 2007


John Arbash Meinel пишет:
> Alexander Belchenko wrote:
>> This is continue of recent story of Vlad Adamenko. More details.
>>
>> His current project is about 40GB in about of 80K files. svn history
>> more than 1K.
>>
>> AFAIK bzr currently unable to handle such big repositories?
>>
>> But strange thing about problem with checkout on Windows machine and
>> MemoryError. If he does full checkout or branching from the Linux server
>> over sftp -- operation fails with MemoryError, and bzr process eats more
>> than 750MB RAM. But when he doing lightweight checkout -- process
>> successfully finished and bzr eats about 50MB RAM. Why?
> 
> Did you see my patch for sftp? He could try that. It seems our current sftp
> implementation keeps a significant amount of data before it flushes it up to
> the next layer.
> 
> In my simple testing I was able to drop RAM consumption from 390MB => 40MB.

Yes, and he's apply this patch. And Vlad said: this patch does not help. 
Without this patch bzr fails after 20-30 seconds, with this patch after 
5 minutes. Report about 750MB is for patched version of bzr.





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