Raising changes file size limit?

Joshua 'Schwa' Gargus schwa at cc.gatech.edu
Tue Oct 14 05:54:23 UTC 2003


On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 01:28:24AM -0400, Lex Spoon wrote:
> "Joshua 'Schwa' Gargus" <schwa at cc.gatech.edu> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > My .changes file is about 33Mb, and I got a message saying that it was
> > almost at it's size limit, and that I should take action to reduce it
> > before bad stuff happens.  I have dozens of gigabytes of free disk
> > space, so I would like to increase this size limit.  Unfortunately, 15
> > minutes of browsing didn't turn up any leads.  Can anyone help me out?
> > 
> 
> Well, you can always do condenseChanges to buy yourself a lot of time. 
> You don't really have 33MB of code, do you?  :)  

No, but I like to be able to do archaeology on the sources :-)

> Maybe I should be doing
> type inference trial runs on your image, to really get some impressive
> stats!  :)

I think you'd be disappointed. :-)

> 
> Anyway, I'm guessing that the limit is a real pain to increase.  For
> example, maybe the source pointer in methods is running out of bits. 
> Otherwise, why have a limit at all?

>From Tim's post, it sounds like this is the case.

Joshua


> 
> 
> -Lex



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