From: Brian Downing <bdowning@lavos.net>
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 17:17:13 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] pack-objects: only throw away data during memory pressure
Message-ID: <20080212171713.GH27535@lavos.net>
In-Reply-To: <20080212171403.GG27535@lavos.net>

On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 11:14:03AM -0600, Brian Downing wrote:
> Sometimes I want a bounded window size with bounded memory usage; i.e. a
> maximum of 50 entries OR 256 megs worth.  That's for everyday repacking
> of my troublesome repository; without the window going down to less than
> 10 or so for the large files, it still takes way too long, but doing the
> whole thing at 10 makes for very poor packing.

(Yeah, the default depth is 10.  I admit to shooting from the hip a bit
in my description above, but I do really use that mode of operation, and
wouldn't like to lose it.)

-bcd