Re: TortoiseProc.exe eats 1.6GB of RAM during simple merge.

On 03.08.2010 19:21, Terry Dooher wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've picked up an odd problem on a user's desktop while merging.
> After slecting a revision range on the trunk (~20 revs, covering ~300
> files, totalling ~30MB) and selecting 'Test Merge', memory
> consumption of TortoiseProc.exe leaps to about 1.6GB VM Size and
> stays there until the (test) merge is complete and he clicks cancel
> on the following window, whereby all of the allocation is released.
>
> We tried a smaller merge, using a single revision with _no_ changed
> files and it does exactly the same thing, to within 10MB of the first
> attempt. The merge would take no more than 5-10 seconds, and there's
> no other performance hit (once we'd killed some processes to stop it
> paging, that is).
>
> It's a large working copy and we always merge to the root, but it
> seems abnormal for Tortoise to allocate this much RAM to do nothing.
>
> Can anyone shed any light on what's happening?

This is a known problem in the svn library.
Memory use will be improved a lot in the next version of the svn lib
(version 1.7).

Stefan

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