Re: out of memory

2005-07-01 Thread mail4newsgroups
Rahul wrote: > One thing you could try is to recompile CVS without HAVE_MMAP flag. > On a 32 bit system memory mapped files will hit the 2GB limit. By > default > CVS uses mmap'd files for faster performance. > > That said CVS could avoid loading entire file in memory and work > off segements whe

Re: out of memory

2005-06-29 Thread mail4newsgroups
Armel Asselin wrote: > > So I guess my questions are: > > > > 1. Assuming that we need more memory, why not all of the swap is used? > > I am not trying to say that there's something wrong with 'cvs', rather > > just trying to understand the problem. > On a 32 bits OS, you rarely can allocate more

out of memory

2005-06-28 Thread mail4newsgroups
Hello, I am trying to do a merge from one branch to another. Among other changes, on the changed branch I have added a large, 1 GB file (packaged oracle -- don't ask). It is a binary type file -kb. During the merge, all of the RAM and some SWAP is taken and then an "out of memory" exception is pr

Re: List of files changed between 2 tags

2005-05-26 Thread mail4newsgroups
Thanks Spiro and Andy for your answers. I was doing a 'cvs diff -s -r <> -r <>' but I thought that there must be something else out there, but I just was not aware of it. The 'cvs -q up -r <>' that Spiro sugested is actually pretty good, never thought about it. Too bad there isn't a command to s

List of files changed between 2 tags

2005-05-25 Thread mail4newsgroups
Hello, I am trying to get a list of files changed between two tags. I am aware of 'cvs diff' command but not interested to see in the output the lines that have changed, contextually or not, I just need to see _what_ files have changed, period. I have checked all options of 'cvs diff' including --