On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 09:47:26 -0700, Jason Dagit wrote: > During darcs record I noticed that darcs needed 1.6GB of memory just to give > me the list of hunks and adds. I typed 'a' to accept all and darcs was > killed by windows when it reached about 2GB of memory usage. > > I could be mistaken, but I thought back in the darcs 1.0.x days David > optimized darcs for this case and you could actually add as many files as > you wanted without running out of memory.
Check out http://bugs.darcs.net/issue80, particularly http://bugs.darcs.net/msg2981 in which David says we used to have special case code for record which we lost in Darcs 2 for code cleanliness. If I understand correctly, David says that the real solution is to implement chunky hunks http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1357 This complaint just came up on reddit yesterday. I've added a troubleshooting entry for it: http://wiki.darcs.net/Troubleshooting#darcs%20record-runs-out-of-memory Meanwhile, I'd be very interested to hear about ways we can improve this situation. For example, I wonder if there is any way to get the benefits of chunky hunks without actually having to change the repo format? -- Eric Kow <http://www.nltg.brighton.ac.uk/home/Eric.Kow> PGP Key ID: 08AC04F9
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