makehistory takes a long time on latest CVS

Heath Kehoe heath.kehoe at intermec.com
Mon Aug 7 04:23:11 UTC 2000


>
>In article <200008042317.e74NHdC01247 at vulpine.ao.net>,
>	Dan Merillat <harik at chaos.ao.net> wrote;
>
>} I think (but am not positive) that buffindexed is taking the time,
>} because if I run it in 'fork and flush' mode, it always overruns my
>} available /tmp space.... getting unsorted overview data faster then it
>} can store it.
>} 
>} aug 4 CVS snapshot.
>} 
>} Ideas on where to look?
>
>How about attached which is not tested yet, but should work.
>Overview data does not need to be sorted for buffindexed, and
>this patch makes makehistory write overview data at the same
>time while history is written.
>-- 
>Katsuhiro Kondou
>

How about we do away with the batching/sorting entirely?
Then we don't need the -F or -l options, and can simplify
the code quite a bit.

Actually, I'm gonna run some tests, and find out which way
is fastest (i.e., shortest run-time of makehistory).

-heath




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