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Re: Finishing the repository conversion
Jason Merrill <jason@redhat.com>:
> > What do your repo load times look like, and how much RAM is in your
> > surgery machine? My loads are currently hanging in D state after 13 hours on
> > a 64GiB hexacore Xeon 3 running at nominally 3.50GHz. I'm beginning
> > to wonder if I have some kind of high-memory error - I don't recall this
> > happening last time I took a swing at the conversion.
>
> I think it was on the order of 18-20 hours, but it's been a while.
> The machine I was using before actually has more memory now than it
> did then; free -g reports 251G total memory.
OK, your figures make sense - I designed the Great Beast around
getting high memory bandwidth in the expectation that working sets
from large conversions would be huge.
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