bzr and biiig repo

[John Arbash Meinel]

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Alexander Belchenko wrote:
> 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.

Well, that would indicate that it *does* help, but just not enough :).

Can he tell us what the size of his largest file is?

John
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