Re: Reproducible, corrupt packfile after fresh git-svn checkout message

From: Ben Tebulin <tebulin@googlemail.com>
Date: Aug 14, 2013, 09:47 UTC
Message-ID: <520B5221.3040308@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <877gfok59m.fsf@linux-k42r.v.cablecom.net>

> My best theory so far:
> malloc()/free() actually use mmap()/munmap() for large allocations.
> mallopt(3) tells me that [...]

Many things I don't grab at first go :-)

Last night I did a long git-bisect of the kernel and was able to pinpoint a change in the Linux memory management as cause (see my pre-prepared email I just sent).

Would that fit into your theory?

> You could try to gather some data on this by  [...]

Before I dive into that maybe you could throw a quick look at the causing Kernel change (which reading from the words _could_ be related) if this fits into the picture?

If yes, I'm happy to try to assist you in further pinning this issue down!