Hi, stephan Thanks for replying to my question again.
I may split up source tree into a few branches, but What is biggest size a .fsl should limit to ? So I can operate within the safe boundary. Also I hope the warning of oversized .fsl should come out of the fossil commands somehow. T.J. Yang ________________________________ > Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2010 16:18:25 +0100 > From: sgb...@googlemail.com > To: fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org > Subject: Re: [fossil-users] What is maximum limit size of a .fsl file ? > > On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 3:39 PM, T.J. Yang> wrote: > > http://www.fossil-scm.org/index.html/tktview?name=b074a7588b > > You might be hitting a RAM limit here, as opposed to a filesystem or > sqlite3/fossil limit. Fossil performs many operations in memory (e.g. diffs). > Internally it uses "unsigned int" for its size type. If your platform has a > 32-bit integer (that isn't clear based on your bug report), then fossil will > fail to diff large objects. Also, since the diffs are done in RAM, large > objects (approx. 2^31 bytes) will fail to diff properly because two copies > are needed to perform a diff. It is a limit of 32-bit platforms that no > single process can address more than 4GB of memory, but in practice that > limit is a bit lower (3.6-3.8GB is the most i've seen successfully allocated > to a single 32-bit process). > > > In my opinion, your particular use case is a bit out of scope for fossil. > Every system has limits, and your use case would appear to push fossil past > its limits. Even if that given repository will work in a 64-bit environment > (though i'm not sure that it will), the repository itself would then be > unusable on 32-bit machines. > > > -- > ----- stephan beal > http://wanderinghorse.net/home/stephan/ _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail: Trusted email with powerful SPAM protection. http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/196390707/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
