Re: info: memory exhausted for processing python3.10.info

[Hilmar Preuße]

Am 18.10.2022 um 13:48 teilte Gavin Smith mit:

Hi Gavin,

> I reproduced the issue.
>
> I did not investigate fully why the memory usage was so high, but I've
> committed a fix in commit f7e8f926d7.  info was searching for the Info
> file for every single node (over 4500 of them) and I suspect that this
> also led to memory allocation for the entire file each time. ( Neatly,
> 4500 * 4.5MB is about 2 GB.)
>
> This use case is important for people who do
>
>    info python3.10 | less
The patch solved the issue on 32bit and amd64. Many thanks!

Hilmar
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