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Re: GPF in index-pack

From
Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com>
Date
Aug 6, 2006, 02:58 UTC
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<9e4733910608051958h6144add7td46de70dd8b45a5e@mail.gmail.com>
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On 8/5/06, Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> wrote:
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> Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Process size is 2.6GB when the seg fault happen. That's a lot of
> > memory to build a pack index over 1M objects.
> >
> > I'm running a 3:1 process address space split. I wonder why it didn't
> > grow all the way to 3GB. I still have RAM and swap available.
>
> Was the pack you are trying to index built with that fast-import.c
> I sent last night?  Its possible its doing something weird that
> pack-index can't handle, such as insert a duplicate object into
> the same pack...
built with fast-import.
> How big is the pack file?  I'd expect pack-index to be using
> something around 24 MB of memory (24 bytes/entry) but maybe its
> hanging onto a lot of data (memory leak?) as it decompresses the
> entries to compute the checksums.
It is 934MB in size with 985,000 entries.

Why does resolve_delta in index-pack.c need to be recursive? Is there a better way to code that routine? If it mmaps the file that uses 1GB address space, why does it need another 1.5GB to build an index?

I had a prior 400MB pack file built with fast-import that I was able to index ok.

-- 
Jon Smirl
jonsmirl@gmail.com
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