From: Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 15:40:35 GMT
Subject: Re: pack operation is thrashing my server
Message-ID: <32541b130808110840p1287426fpeef967a9ff4fb094@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20080811150150.GC26363@spearce.org>

On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 11:01 AM, Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> wrote:
> On the up side, packing should only be consuming huge memory like
> this when it needs to move loose objects into a pack file.  I think
> Martin Langhoff suggested packing this on your laptop then using
> rsync over SSH to copy the pack file and .idx file to the server, so
> the server didn't have to spend time figuring out the deltas itself.

Do you need to also introduce a ".keep" file to get the benefit from
this?  I had a repo with some very large objects, and it was killing
my low-memory server *every* time I did "git gc", until I repacked on
another system, created the .keep file, and rsynced it back.  Does
that make sense?

Thanks,

Avery