Summary of memory consumption improvements

[Robert Collins]

On Wed, 2009-10-21 at 07:14 +1000, Ian Clatworthy wrote:
> John Arbash Meinel wrote:
> 
> > Anyway, the numbers are looking pretty good, though as mentioned I'm
> > only at 60%, and I'm shooting for 50% for the 2.1.0b2 release. I still
> > have the chk_map code to land, and some bits to clean up here and there.
> 
> Fantastic work!
> 
> FWIW, the biggest problem I have is memory consumption during
> fast-imports. Trying to pack OOo with 260k revisions is ugly - my 6G
> desktop just isn't enough to do it in 2.0.0. It's not always pack though
> - simply importing the first few thousand (hundred?) revisions of Qt is
> a major memory hog.

Fast import caches inventories in memory though; I strongly suspect that
that is the problem.

-Rob
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