Comment 3 for bug 402623

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Robert Collins (lifeless) wrote : Re: [Bug 402623] Re: .cix thrashing causes us to re-download the whole index multiple times

On Fri, 2009-08-14 at 03:15 +0000, Martin Pool wrote:
> 2009/8/14 Robert Collins <email address hidden>:
> > I'm not sure what to do about this :(.
>
> Can we let the cache grow to fit at least one whole index? Thrashing
> into swap is probably better than thrashing over the network.
>
> Is this a release blocker?

I don't think so because:
 - few projects are _really big_
 - those that aren't should be fine.

-Rob