Date: Mon, 16 Aug 1999 17:03:17 -0700 From: Darryl Okahata <darrylo@sr.hp.com> To: Mark Jaffe <mjaffe@rsv.ricoh.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [Fwd: [URGENT] CVS problems] Message-ID: <199908170003.RAA09883@mina.sr.hp.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 16 Aug 1999 12:45:29 PDT."
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> Mark Jaffe wrote:
> >
> > CVS is issuing an "out of memory" message on attempting to checkin a
> > 12MB file. What can I do? There is 300M of swap on the machine, it is
> > running FreeBSD 2.2.8, and CVS says:
> > "Concurrent Versions System (CVS) 1.9.26 (client/server)"
>
> Anyone help?
How big is the history file size (compared to the processes' max
allowed data size)? CVS has a number of brain-damanged areas; one in
particular is that CVS reads the *ENTIRE* history file into memory when
doing stuff ... and it's doing so simply to scan the history file
line-by-line ....
--
Darryl Okahata
darrylo@sr.hp.com
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