From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 22:02:15 GMT
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Example Cogito Addon - cogito-bundle
Message-ID: <7vac3tz3iw.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <20061018215219.GG19194@spearce.org>

Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> writes:

> However what do we do about the case where we mmap over 1 GiB worth
> of pack data (because the mmap succeeds and we have at least that
> much in .pack and .idx files) and then the application starts to
> demand a lot of memory via malloc?...
>
> The other configuration option is the size of the mmap window.
>...
> Earlier this summer we discussed this exact issue and said this
> value probably needs to be configurable if only to facilitate the
> unit tests.

I see.  So you are allowing users to control individual window
size and total mmap memory.  That makes sense.