From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2006 06:15:04 GMT
Subject: Re: Figured out how to get Mozilla into git
Message-ID: <7vr71xk047.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <9e4733910606092302h646ff554p107564417183e350@mail.gmail.com>

"Jon Smirl" <jonsmirl@gmail.com> writes:

> Here's a new transport problem. When using git-clone to fetch Martin's
> tree it kept failing for me at dreamhost. I had a parallel fetch
> running on my local machine which has a much slower net connection. It
> finally finished and I am watching the end phase where it prints all
> of the 'walk' messages. The git-http-fetch process has jumped up to
> 800MB in size after being 2MB during the download. dreamhost has a
> 500MB process size limit so that is why my fetches kept failing there.

The http-fetch process uses by mmaping the downloaded pack, and
if I recall correctly we are talking about 600MB pack, so 500MB
limit sounds impossible, perhaps?