From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Tue, 07 Apr 2009 20:29:54 GMT
Subject: Re: Performance issue: initial git clone causes massive repack
Message-ID: <20090407202954.GA13501@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <20090407181259.GB4413@atjola.homenet>

On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 08:12:59PM +0200, Björn Steinbrink wrote:

> If so, that doesn't look it it's going to work out as easily as one
> would hope. Robin said that both processes, git-upload-pack (which does
> the rev-list) and pack-objects peaked at ~2GB of RSS (which probably
> includes the mmapped packs). But the above pack-objects with --all peaks

I thought he said this, too, but look at the ps output he posted here:

  http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/115739

It clearly shows upload-pack with a tiny RSS, and pack-objects doing all
of the damage.

-Peff