[darcs-users] memory leak in 'darcs log'

[Ganesh Sittampalam]

On 14/08/2018 15:37, Henning Thielemann wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 14 Aug 2018, Henning Thielemann wrote:
> 
>> I cloned a darcs repository lazily
> 
> $ darcs get --lazy http://hub.darcs.net/thielema/lapack
> 
>> and then wanted to pull the unfetched patches via the hint from [1]:
>>
>> $ darcs log --verbose | tail
>>
>> This eats up all my memory.
>>
>> $ darcs --version
>> 2.12.4 (release)
>>


I haven't managed to reproduce this locally with a variety of versions
of darcs, but it's a bit trick to retry operations involving a lazy repo
as patches get cached. Are you able to reproduce it, maybe even with a
non-lazy repo? Can you also try the most recent version (2.14.x)?

Cheers,

Ganesh