Comment 9 for bug 408531

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Martin Pool (mbp) wrote : Re: [Bug 408531] Re: bzr branch on large projects require vast amounts of memory

2009/11/18 John A Meinel <email address hidden>:
> *A* problem with a bug like "require lots of memory" is that there isn't
> a clear point when the bug can be considered closed. The old code didn't
> really grow without bounds, it just had a high bound (say 1GB to branch
> a Launchpad branch), and the new code has a lower bound (approx 512MB
> now).

Right.

> I'm tempted to mark this as fix released in bzr-2.1.0b2 and open a new
> bug if we want to continue the discussion.

OK with me.

That has another possibly beneficial effect: you can see if anyone
using >2.1b2 *actually* complains about memory usage, or how many
people do. If nobody, then though it may not be the smallest it could
be, it would seem a low priority.

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Martin <http://launchpad.net/~mbp/>