Re: Memory consumption and virtual machines

[Philip Van Hoof <spam pvanhoof be>]

I'm going to attempt to conclude this mini-thread that got extended to
other mailing lists.

On Wed, 2006-07-19 at 02:45 -0600, Veerapuram Varadhan wrote:

> I have created a branch exclusively for the "camel mmap summary" work,
> viz., "mmapped-camel-summary-branch" which will help Phillip to continue
> his research further.

I'm going to let the patch rest for a few days so that you can take a
good look at it and decide what needs improvement before it goes into
that branch.

> Phillip: Make sure you don't change the format-of-summary-file too
> drastically, the "\0" is acceptable though. 

We have the discuss this :). But lets do that in focused mailing lists
like evolution-hackers.
 
> Federico, I would like it to be maintained and well tested in the branch
> rather then rushing it up in HEAD.  IMO, a branch gives more freedom to
> do such research work than HEAD.  Correct me if I am wrong. :-)

I agree here. Bringing it to HEAD might be to early. Nevertheless would
I be indeed very pleased if a lot people test this on a lot config-
urations.


Thanks for considering the patch.


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