On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 12:57 PM, Ross Boylan <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, 2012-06-18 at 12:17 -0500, Steve Borho wrote: >> On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 8:17 PM, Ross Boylan <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Is there any point in reporting bugs in an old version, specifically >> > 1.0.4? I had some crashes when I attempted to work with a 400MB file. >> > >> > Also, are there any issues I should be aware of before upgrading to the >> > current version? Aside from wondering if it will eat my records, I'm >> > also working with someone who may not upgrade, and I want to know if it >> > is reasonable for them to continue without upgrading if I do. >> >> In general the hgtk branch has been dead for a couple of years, though >> it does have a few notable users. If the errors you encounters were >> "MemoryError" exceptions, those affect the Qt version as well. The >> only workaround is to use a 64bit O/S and 64bit TortoiseHg. >> > Are you saying that the files under control must fit in memory (I'm > guessing that means both the new and old together must fit into memory)? > Is that a tortoise thing, or the underlying Hg? > > Come to think of it, 400MB should have fit in memory, though perhaps not > when combined with everything else that was running (I have 2G). I > wasn't comparing it to anything, just trying to add it to the repository > and then remove it when adding it took forever and crashed. Removing it > also took forever and crashed. But in the end it was out of the repo.
The problem has more to do with memory address space than total memory. It is primarily a Mercurial problem but THG makes the problem worse by keeping a single process alive for a much longer time than hg.exe normally has to deal with, leading to fragmentation. -- Steve Borho ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ Tortoisehg-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tortoisehg-discuss
