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Re: pack operation is thrashing my server

From
AKAndi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Date
Aug 11, 2008, 19:10 UTC
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"Ken Pratt" <ken@kenpratt.net> writes:
>
> I'm starting to think repacking is just not feasible on a 64-bit
> server with 256MB of RAM (which is a very popular configuration in the
> VPS market).

As a quick workaround you could try it with a 32bit git executable? (assuming you have a distribution with proper multilib support)

I think the right fix would be to make git throttle itself (not use mmap, use very small defaults etc.) on low memory systems. It could take a look a /proc/meminfo for this.

-Andi
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