Re: RAM consumption when working with the gcc repo

Here's a big clue.

When I repack the 300MB file the process grows to 4.8GB When I repack the 2,000MB file the process grows to 3.3GB

In both cases the last 10% of the repack is taking as much time as the first 90%.

At the end I am packing 60 objects/sec. In the beginning i was packing 1,000s of objects per second.

I'm not swapping

jonsmirl@terra:/video/gcc/.git/objects/pack/foo$ vmstat 1
procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- -system-- ----cpu----
 r  b   swpd   free   buff  cache   si   so    bi    bo   in   cs us sy id wa
 2  0   1416  25668   3904 2756404    0    0    62    45  115  398  6  0 93  1
 3  0   1416  26880   3900 2754852    0    0     0     0  414 2453 26  1 73  0
 2  0   1416  26880   3900 2754852    0    0     0     0  472 3518 26  1 73  0
 4  0   1416  26912   3900 2754768    0    0     0     0  394 1642 26  1 74  0
 2  0   1416  26912   3900 2754768    0    0     0     0  401 1364 25  0 75  0
 2  0   1416  26896   3900 2754768    0    0     0     0  456 1922 25  1 75  0