Comment 9 for bug 109114
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| Robert Collins (lifeless) wrote Re: [Bug 109114] Re: commit holds whole files in memory | #9 |
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On Thu, 2008-10-30 at 09:28 +0000, Michael Nagel wrote:
> i have been hit by this bug too. some ~40MB binary files cause bzr to
> suck up 1.5 gigabytes of ram and then die.
>
> adding such files should work in the first place, but a somewhat nicer
> message ( *mentioning the file causing the trouble* , so you can ignore
> it as a workaround) would be really nice!
Thats a reasonable point, though in fact we should be able to use a temp
file on disk to work around memory limits for this - and we have longer
term facilities being designed at the moment to handle extremely large
files gracefully.
-Rob
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