bzr memory usage

[John Szakmeister]

On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 10:10 AM, Eric Siegerman <lists08-bzr at davor.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-05-04 at 13:28 +0300, Dimitrios Apostolou wrote:
>> In my case I'd like to be able to run just a few bzr commands, but for
> now
>> even being able to download the tree would be a huge improvement,
>> actually it would make bzr usable for me.
>
> Try the tarball kludge, but include .bzr in the tarball.  Once
> you've got the bulk of the data onto your low-memory machine, you
> might find that subsequent bzr operations are a *lot* less
> resource-hungry than is the full initial branch/checkout.
>
> Actually, I know that -- absent your memory restrictions -- the
> performance is fine on subsequent operations (there was a thread [1]
> about this not too long ago re. emacs); I'd be curious to learn
> whether the memory footprint also becomes acceptable.

...until the repository gets re-packed.  That tends to be a fairly
memory hungry operation too.

-John