<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 5:19 PM, Martin Pool <<a href="mailto:mbp@canonical.com">mbp@canonical.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> <div class="im">On 22 January 2011 10:50, Maritza Mendez <<a href="mailto:martitzam@gmail.com">martitzam@gmail.com</a>> wrote: > > Hi, Martin. > > Your observation about phones is certainly correct. I would ask how this > scales on the bzr smartserver end of the wire. If, say, four developers are > merging to/from four different branches [1] simultaneously, it seems like > the box running the bzr smartserver might thrash badly. > > What do you expect? > > [1] For simplicity, assume plain branches. For complexity, assume four > branches in a shared repo. </div>The particular thing discussed here is pulling from svn into bzr, which has higher memory usage than doing things in bzr native formats. Generally speaking very little Python memory is shared, so if four people do this operation at the very same time it will use 4x as much memory. -- Martin </blockquote></div> Thanks, Martin. That's what I imagined. I am a little surprised we have not run into this here yet. But knowing that it could happen will help us deal with it when it does happen. ~M