Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: New project: libmtn

[Nathaniel Smith]

On Fri, Jun 30, 2006 at 03:22:55AM +0400, Arseny Nasokin wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 29, 2006 at 11:49:47PM +0100, Bruce Stephens wrote:
> > Well, importing CVS is tough for most systems (it's easier with
> > subversion).  I think that's a difficulty that's intrinsic to the
> > problem, isn't it?  Are you sure the difficulty with FreeBSD's CVS
> > aren't just inevitable?
>
> Yes, about after 300 branches commited in (about 500'000 revisions). The 
> message from ZSH: killed

This sounds like an out-of-memory error.  Can you confirm this?
(I.e., is the monotone process using all available memory when this
happens?)

We would certainly be happy to accept patches to reduce cvs_import's
memory usage.

The only other possibility that occurs is that it's doing
super-deeply-nested recursion (though that would generally result in a
segfault).  It's possible cvs_import still has deeply nested recursion
in it; if so, we'd also be happy to accept patches for that.

-- Nathaniel

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