On Wed, 2002-05-22 at 10:15, Ben Collins-Sussman wrote: > > [crossposted to APR and SVN dev lists.] > > Hi, all. I've been working with Sander to resolve some pool problems. ... > Anyway, I've included the patches below for people to look at. > Apparently Sander posted these before, but nobody had a reason to > care. Well, now Subversion *really* needs these features. > > I've tested this patch on our two use cases: the memory footprint for > 'svn checkout' bounces up and down, but eventually plateaus around > 25M. The footprint for 'svnadmin dump' also bounces around, but > plateaus around 17M. A huge difference! > > Sander is worried about possible pool-performance hits from these > changes, so he's hoping folks might be able to do some timing stats. > (Personally, via my sophisticated use of the unix 'time' command, I > find no noticeable difference.)
I'll run httpd benchmarks using this patch and the current pool code. If all goes well, I'll post results later today. --Brian
