On Mon, Dec 11, 2017 at 1:20 PM, Eric S. Raymond <e...@thyrsus.com> wrote:
> Jason Merrill <ja...@redhat.com>:
>> I've pushed to the thyrsus gcc-conversion repository the rest of my
>> work from last year, including a few changes to the attribution map
>> and a post-processing script.
>
> Got it.  I will, as before, be pushing my lift file mods to that repository.
>
>> It has occurred to me that for the period since the creation of
>> gcc.gnu.org we might just use @gcc.gnu.org addresses (which are likely
>> to forward) rather than try to nail down everyone's current address.
>> But using the address from the ChangeLog sounds better.
>
> That's your policy choice to make, I'm just the mechanic.  The map file
> can be replaced or updated at any time.
>
> 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.

Jason

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