ima: use of radix tree cache indexing == massive waste of memory?
Pavel Machek
pavel at ucw.cz
Tue Oct 26 07:31:59 UTC 2010
Hi!
> >> > Good enough as a short-term thing I guess.
> >> >
> >> > But the memory consumption which David described is plain nuttiness
> >>and
> >> > needs to be fixed, presumably by using a more appropriate data
> >>structure
> >> > for lookups.
> >> >
> >> > However unless I missed it, nobody has yet stated that they intend to
> >> > fix this?
> >>
> >> I think Eric said he is going to look at it.
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >>
> >> Dave.
> >
> >Am looking at it as well.
> >
> >Mimi
>
> I'll help look into this aspect too.
>
> To be clear (since my first post seemed to go to the moderator), we will
> be using this starting with MeeGo 1.2. Yes, this rather pigish memory
> usage needs to be addressed. Let's focus on fixing that. I'd say there
> are a number of options we can explore here to do that.
Curious... I see how NSA might want to use it, but MeeGo?
Pavel
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