From: "Alex Riesen" <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
To: "Noel Grandin" <noel@peralex.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: win2k/cygwin cannot handle even moderately sized packs
Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2006 14:55:01 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <81b0412b0611070555u1833cc8ci1d37d45782562df8@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <45507965.3010806@peralex.com>
> So the problem is probably memory fragmentation.
probably.
> You might have more joy if you allocated one HUGE chunk immediately on
> startup to use for the pack, and then kept re-using that chunk.
Well, it is not _one_ chunk. The windows/cygwin abomin...combination
may take an issue with this: it seem to copy complete address space
at fork, which even for such a small packs I have here takes system
down lightly (yes, I tried it).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-11-07 13:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-11-07 11:02 win2k/cygwin cannot handle even moderately sized packs Alex Riesen
2006-11-07 12:17 ` Noel Grandin
2006-11-07 13:55 ` Alex Riesen [this message]
2006-11-07 15:50 ` Jakub Narebski
2006-11-07 17:28 ` Alex Riesen
2006-11-07 17:48 ` Shawn Pearce
2006-11-07 18:13 ` Alex Riesen
2006-11-07 18:18 ` Shawn Pearce
2006-11-07 18:26 ` Shawn Pearce
2006-11-07 18:56 ` Shawn Pearce
2006-11-07 23:11 ` Alex Riesen
2006-11-08 5:19 ` Shawn Pearce
2006-11-08 13:37 ` Alex Riesen
2006-11-08 17:11 ` Shawn Pearce
2006-11-08 21:33 ` Alex Riesen
2006-11-08 22:28 ` Shawn Pearce
2006-11-07 19:27 ` Alex Riesen
2006-11-08 19:22 ` Christopher Faylor
2006-11-13 12:45 ` Johannes Schindelin
2006-11-13 17:34 ` Alex Riesen
2006-11-13 17:36 ` Alex Riesen
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