bzr failed to import large SVN repository

Stephen Bevan stephen.bevan at gmail.com
Fri Mar 14 19:57:33 GMT 2008


On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 4:15 AM, Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer at samba.org> wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, den 13.03.2008, 14:48 -0700 schrieb Stephen Bevan:
>  You seem to be using a relatively old version of bzr. What version of
>  bzr-svn are you using and do you have the memory leak patch from
>  Subversion 1.5 installed ?

I was using bzr-svn 0.4.1-1, the version that comes with Ubuntu 7.10.
I noticed today Ubuntu do offer later versions if "unsupported
updates" (gutsy-backports) is enabled so I enabled it and now have bzr
1.0-1 and bzr-svn 0.4.7-1.   Tried the import again.  The bzr process
started out at under 200MB but over time grew and after 74 minutes of
CPU time (over two hours of elapsed time) it was at 1.7GB and there is
no indication of whether it is anywhere near finishing or not -- GIT
defaulted to displaying the revisions it was importing which is
chatty, but at least let me gauge its progress and it finished in
minutes not hours.  So even if bzr 1.0 finishes the import, it clearly
isn't practical for the size of repository that I have.    If and when
bzr is updated again in Ubuntu 7.10 I'll try the test again.  I could
download bzr 1.2 myself but if that is too bleeding edge for Ubuntu to
even put in their "unsupported updates" then it isn't something I want
to spend any time on right now.



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