Re: [Evolution-hackers] Memory consumption and virtual machines

[Philip Van Hoof <spam pvanhoof be>]

On Tue, 2006-07-18 at 13:26 -0500, Federico Mena Quintero wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-07-18 at 18:29 +0200, Philip Van Hoof wrote:


I agree with 1,2,..3 and 4. I will make sure 1 will be finished soon.
Probably this evening with a compile-time option (--enable-mmap)

> > I'm waiting for the decision (yours) of making this optional using a
> > compilation flag or at run-time.
> 
> Let's do this in the usual manner:
> 
> 0. Polish the patch in the usual way:  make sure it follows the
> indentation and naming conventions of the surrounding code, etc.
> 
> 1. Branch evolution-data-server into HEAD (development, with Philip's
> patch), and the stable branch (without the patch).
> 
> 2. Make the patch *mandatory* in HEAD, so that it gets a good amount of
> testing.
> 
> 3. ???
> 
> 4. Profit!!!
> 
> I'd suggest that (3) become "write a good stress-test suite for Camel,
> independent of Evolution".  We need that anyway.
> 
> Novell already has a bunch of LDTP stuff to test the Evo mailer from the
> user's viewpooint - run those tests on the patched version to see how
> well they work.  [Varadhan, those tests are already part of our QA
> process, aren't they?]



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