Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Automate stdio chunk size

[Nuno Lucas]

On 7/10/06, Nathaniel Smith <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 08:17:36PM +0200, Thomas Moschny wrote:
> The point of having an upper-limit is to put an upper bound on how
> much memory monotone has to use.  1M seems a bit large for this
> purpose, and I'm astonished if you actually have to go to 1M to get
> the benefit.  Could someone run timings at different block sizes
> and pick one that gives most of the speed benefit without being huge?

Note that this interface will probably be run on a pipe and different
block sizes will have a different impact on different operating
systems (and even between versions).

I remember there was a paper on the drastic differences in speed
between the pipe handling on Windows 2000 and XP for different block
sizes.
Maybe someone can recollect where that paper was...


Best regards,
~Nuno Lucas

> -- Nathaniel