From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Mon, 01 Jun 2015 20:58:54 GMT
Subject: Re: git-repack keeps running out of memory
Message-ID: <20150601205854.GA21144@peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <556CAD64.8000208@ubuntu.com>

On Mon, Jun 01, 2015 at 03:07:16PM -0400, Phil Susi wrote:

> It's more the --window-memory argument that is important here: it is
> supposed to prevent exactly this problem.  I guess I tried adding the
> --max-pack-size as well on the off chance that it would help.

How many processors do you have? The window-memory is per-thread. Try
with --threads=1.

-Peff