[Nepomuk] Review Request: FileWatch: Avoid calling the addWatch function recursively
Simeon Bird
bladud at gmail.com
Sat Dec 1 16:41:33 UTC 2012
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Ship it!
Ship It!
- Simeon Bird
On Dec. 1, 2012, 11:14 a.m., Vishesh Handa wrote:
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> (Updated Dec. 1, 2012, 11:14 a.m.)
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> Review request for Nepomuk, Sebastian Trueg and Simeon Bird.
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> Description
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> FileWatch: Avoid calling the addWatch function recursively
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> A watch needs to be added for each directory. If we try to add the
> watches recursively, then at each level a new string is allocated which
> consumes memory. This memory is eventually freed, but that doesn't
> decrease the filewatch service's memory footprint.
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> Additionally, this extra memory can be quite large depending on how your
> directory is structed. For me it makes a memory difference of about
> 50mb, but bug reports indicate that it can go as high as 2gb.
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> _k_addWatches() now only adds one watch and then calls itself. It
> additionally traverses the file system tree in a depth first manner in
> order to avoid extra memory allocations. (Breadth first costs more
> memory)
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> BUG: 310556
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> This addresses bug 310556.
> http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=310556
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> Diffs
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> services/filewatch/kinotify.cpp e540f76
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> Diff: http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/107529/diff/
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> Testing
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> Memory footprint reduced from 65 to 17mb.
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> Thanks,
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> Vishesh Handa
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