Stability and Memory Pressure in 8.2

[C. Scott Ananian]

On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 11:34 AM,  <pgf at laptop.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-09-09 at 00:10 -0400, Michael Stone wrote:
>>
>>     - This means that we need to measure how our memory consumption
>>       profile has changed since our previous releases.
>>
>>       (cscott observes that we were unable to attack the F-9 image size
>>       issues until we were able to quantify the effect of changes we had
>>       made or were considering making. Consequently, he suggests that we
>>       will be unable to attack our current space consumption problems
>>       until we are able to generate good numbers (and displays).)
>
> what's the baseline "previous" release for this comparison?

update.1 (703, 708, 713 or your choice)

You could also try using the "pre-F-9 merge" joyrides for comparison,
but that presupposes that our memory problems are a side-effect of the
F-9 merge, and I don't think that we have any evidence of this yet.
 --scott

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