changeset 703:ccac5ac68e71

subversion.rst: list memory leaks in the section on limitations
author Dan Villiom Podlaski Christiansen <danchr@gmail.com>
date Tue, 07 Sep 2010 14:33:56 +0200
parents 841399d10c79
children c9811351627c
files hgsubversion/help/subversion.rst
diffstat 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) [+]
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--- a/hgsubversion/help/subversion.rst
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@@ -110,6 +110,12 @@ or pulling converted changesets to or fr
 stored metadata, run :hg:`svn rebuildmeta [URI]`. This must also be done if any
 converted changesets are ever removed from the repository.
 
+Under certain circumstances a long-running conversion can leak substantial
+amounts of memory, on the order of 100MB per 1000 revisions converted. The
+leaks appear to be persistent and unavoidable using the SWIG bindings. When
+using the new experimental Subvertpy bindings leaks have only been observed
+accessing FSFS repositories over the file protocol.
+
 It is not possible to interact with more than one Subversion repository per
 Mercurial clone. Please note that this also applies to more than one path within
 a repository.