[darcs-users] darcs patch: resolve issue777: reduce memory usage of darcs put
David Roundy
droundy at darcs.net
Thu May 22 11:25:05 UTC 2008
On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 4:22 AM, Reinier Lamers <tux_rocker at reinier.de> wrote:
>> Did you actually test that this affects the memory use of put? It'd
>> greatly
>> surprise me if it affected our memory use by more than a couple of
>> percent,
>> and for such a small gain, I'm not convinced it's worth the complexity.
>> Of
>> course, it could also either improve or hurt the cpu time used in put and
>> apply, and I'd be interested in knowing which effect it has.
>
> On my box, the memory usage went from 1 gigabyte and counting to 64 MB for
> the particular phase in which it consumed too much memory, and the maximum
> memory usage during the whole "darcs put" went from more than one gig to
> about 200 MB.
Wow. What is the size of this test repository?
David
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