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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Speedup recursive by flushing index only once for all entries
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 18:43:55 +0100
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To: "Linus Torvalds" <torvalds@osdl.org>
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On 1/11/07, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> wrote:
> That said, I think we actually have another problem entirely:
>
> Look at "write_cache()", Junio: isn't it leaking memory like mad?

Unless it is used in some corner case not covered by tests - it
looks like it does leak memory like mad. With the patch the
memory usage for 44k-merge is more than halved!