+1 to move to git! -Yonik
On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 5:07 PM, Anshum Gupta <ans...@anshumgupta.net> wrote: > I know this has come up a few times in the past but I wanted to bring this > up again. > > The lucene-solr ASF git mirror has been behind by about a day. I was > speaking with the infra people and they say that the size of the repo needs > more and more ram. Forcing a sync causes a fork-bomb: > > Can't fork: Cannot allocate memory at /usr/share/perl5/Git.pm line 1517. > > They tried a few things but it's almost certain that it needs even more RAM, > which still is a band-aid as they'd soon need even more RAM. Also, adding > RAM involves downtime for git.a.o which needs to be planned. As a stop gap > arrangement attached a volume to the instance and are using it as swap to > work around the "adding RAM requires restart" issue. > > FAQ: How would the memory requirement change if we moved to git instead of > mirroring? > Answer: svn -> git mirroring is a weird process and has quite the memory > leak. Using git directly is much cleaner. > > I personally think git does make things easier to manage when you're working > on multiple overlapping things and so we should re-evaluate moving to it. I > would have been fine had the mirroring worked, as all I want is a way to be > able to work on multiple (local) branches without having to create and > maintain directories like: lucene-solr-trunk1, lucene-solr-trunk2, or > SOLR-XXXX, etc. > > Opinions? > > > -- > Anshum Gupta --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@lucene.apache.org
