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Re: THREADED_DELTA_SEARCH

From
Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date
Jul 10, 2008, 20:13 UTC
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Nicolas Pitre, Thu, Jul 10, 2008 18:21:09 +0200:
> On Thu, 10 Jul 2008, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> >  (2) exploding memory use, suspected to be due to malloc pool
> >      fragmentation under multithreading.
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> > but I do not
> > recall the latter issue has been addressed.
> 
> Well, for "standard" repositories such as the Linux kernel, things 
> always worked just fine.  And commit eac12e2d is apparently helping a 
> lot with the remaining odd cases.  And if someone has problems due to 
> this then a simple 'git config --global pack.threads 1' would restore 
> the non threaded behavior.

Have you ever seen what happens to Windows XP on memory shortage? It freezes *hard*. Not a good behaviour for _default_ settings.

And if someone has no problems with memory, then a simple "git config pack.threads 100" would restore the threaded behaviour for a repository which supposedly will never grow up.

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  1. Pierre HabouzitJul 10, 2008
  2. Johannes SixtJul 10, 2008
  3. Andreas EricssonJul 10, 2008
  4. Jakub NarebskiJul 10, 2008
  5. Pierre HabouzitJul 10, 2008
  6. Junio C HamanoJul 10, 2008
  7. Nicolas PitreJul 10, 2008
  8. Alex RiesenJul 10, 2008
  9. Nicolas PitreJul 10, 2008
  10. Alex RiesenJul 10, 2008
  11. Nicolas PitreJul 10, 2008
  12. Alex RiesenJul 10, 2008
  13. Pierre HabouzitJul 11, 2008

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