Comment 3 for bug 456077

On Tue, 2009-10-20 at 07:15 +0000, Ian Clatworthy wrote:
> Hi Jorgen,
>
> Thanks for the bug report. I'm sorry it took so long. Looking at
> https://code.launchpad.net/~mysql/mysql-server/mysql-5.1, it looks like
> that branch is still in our 1.x format. I suspect the primary reason it
> took so long was because it was actually converting content to the new
> format on the fly, rather than just transferring it. I'll let one of the
> more network-savvy developers confirm that.
>
> You may want to check with the MySql team as to when they plan to
> upgrade their branches to our new format before going much further. If
> it's a while away, you may need to change the format you're using
> locally instead of using the default 2.x one.

Conversion will have added to the overhead yes; however we did fix the
huge-roundtrip-count bug on such conversions for 2.0.0, so it should
have been tolerable. Likely the inventory cache was a large contributing
factor to the memory utilisation though.

-Rob