bzr fast-import performance slows over time

[Brian de Alwis]

On 19-Apr-2009, at 5:18 PM, John Arbash Meinel wrote:
> I know I recently fixed one memory leak
> http://bundlebuggy.aaronbentley.com/project/bzr/request/%3C49E69417.2030505%40arbash-meinel.com%3E
>
> I don't think it would account for 8GB of memory consumption.

No, it doesn't unfortunately.

> I know that the fast-import code uses certain logic for caching the  
> file
> contents in memory. It may be that its heuristic fails when use with  
> an
> extra wide tree.


The tree in this case is the git conversion of the NetBSD repository,  
not the very-wide pkgsrc repository that I mention in my other e-mail.

I'll try fiddling some more over the next couple of days to see if I  
can track it down.

Brian.

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