Re: [Monotone-devel] monotone serve thrashing

[Nathaniel Smith]

On Sat, May 21, 2005 at 02:00:34AM +0800, Matt Johnston wrote:
> On Fri, May 20, 2005 at 08:29:03AM -0500, Glen Ditchfield wrote:
> > On Thursday 19 May 2005 22:54, Matt Johnston wrote:
> > > What sort of distribution of file sizes does the database
> > > have? (and also how many revisions/files etc?)
> > 
> > Approximately 2800 files.  One 31MB, one 17MB, about 40 larger than 1 MB.  
> > Only a few small files have more than one revision.
> 
> Matthew Gregan recently (since 0.19) committed a change that
> might make a reasonable difference, see below. The
> t_netsync_largish_file test he refers to tries syncing a 32
> MB file, like your case.

I'm guessing the circular buffer trick we talked about would help
a lot more, though :-).

(Though it's hard to know without running a heap profiler.)

-- Nathaniel

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