dma may be your friend.  it makes things 100 times quicker on fast machines.

brucee

On 5/10/05, andrey mirtchovski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 5/9/05, Vester Thacker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I am running a fossil+venti on an AMD64 machine. After about 20 to 30
> > minutes the machine ceases to receive text or chording input but the
> > mouse cursor still moves and the stats display continues to run. Also,
> > I am unable to cpu to it.
> >
> 
> fossil is deadlocked while dumping to venti. it still does its job but
> no new files can be opened, consequently nothing works except the
> programs that are already started.
> 
> give it enough time and it'll release the deadlock. i've left it
> overnight for big dumps and it has taken up to 12 hours to have a
> useable system before, for something like 10+ gigs.
>

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