From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2012 22:18:49 GMT
Subject: Re: gc --aggressive
Message-ID: <20120417221849.GA11936@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <7vr4vmm29z.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 03:17:28PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> > How many cores are there on this box? Have you tried setting
> > pack.windowMemory to (12 / # of cores) or thereabouts?
> 
> Hrm, from the end-user's point of view, it appears that pack.windowMemory
> ought to mean the total without having to worry about the division of it
> across threads (which the implementation should be responsible for).

Agreed. I had to look in the code to check which it meant. I'm not sure
we can change it without regressing existing users, though.

-Peff