Re: [Monotone-devel] slow update/status on NFS

[Markus Schiltknecht]

Hi,

Richard Levitte wrote:
> Have a time_t that gets initialised when stat() is used, then compare
> it with the result of time() at any use,

To really reduce memory consumption, you'd have to compare *all* cached 
stat results and throw away expired ones.

> and if the difference is
> larger than NNN seconds, do a new stat() first.  getting the output of
> time() should be a fairly cheap operation.

Agreed, but the above is not quite that cheap.

> I can't really say if this is really needed, since most paths should
> be fairly short-lived objects...

That, and for the sake of simplicity, I'd rather like to bind the cached 
status to the lifetime of the any_path object.

Regards

Markus