From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 19:10:31 GMT
Subject: Re: pack operation is thrashing my server
Message-ID: <87vdy71i6w.fsf@basil.nowhere.org>
In-Reply-To: <a6b6acf60808110043t76dc0ae6l428c5da473d79c71@mail.gmail.com>

"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