From: Jeff King Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2017 17:16:46 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] repack: respect gc.pid lock Message-ID: <20170418171646.5a5mjhd4qjr6ot7d@sigill.intra.peff.net> In-Reply-To: On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 05:08:14PM +0000, David Turner wrote: > On 64-bit systems, I think core.packedGitLimit doesn't make a > lot of sense. There is plenty of address space. Why not use it? That's my gut feeling, too. I'd have a slight worry that the OS's paging behavior may respond differently if we have more memory mapped. But that's not based on numbers, just a fear of the unknown. :) If we have infinite windows anyway, I suspect we could just mmap entire packfiles and forget about all the window complexity in the first place. Although IIRC some operating systems take a long time to set up large mmaps, and we may only need a small part of a large pack. > I'll ask our git server administrator to adjust core.packedGitLimit > and turn repacks back on to see if that fixes the issue. Thanks. Let us know if you get any results, either way. -Peff