[darcs-devel] Re: Darcs-git pulling from the Linux repo: a
Linux VM question
Juliusz Chroboczek
Juliusz.Chroboczek at pps.jussieu.fr
Wed Apr 27 08:54:32 PDT 2005
>> For now, does anyone know how I can tune the Linux VM to get a 720
>> MB process to run reliably in 640 MB of main memory?
> I really think you're screwed.
Thanks, that's what I needed to know.
> You _really_ shouldn't read in files that you don't absolutely need.
Ahem... you don't expect me to embark on hacking Git without at least
understanding that, do you?
> That's really the biggest point of git: using the sha1 for naming the
> objects is really all about "descrive the contents using 20 bytes instead
> of by reading the contents".
Here we're speaking about the initial import. Committed on 17 April
2005 by Linus Torvalds, with the comment ``Let it rip''. 220 MB of
changed files in a single commit. 2 minutes real time just to read
all the files, never mind doing anything useful with them.
To put it mildly, Darcs is not optimised for that sort of usage.
> Sorry. You really need to fix darcs.
That's exactly why we're so interested in your repository.
Juliusz
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