Re: Something is broken in repack

The kernel repo has the same problem but not nearly as bad.

Starting from a default pack
 git repack -a -d -f  --depth=1000 --window=1000
Uses 1GB of physical memory

Now do the command again.
 git repack -a -d -f  --depth=1000 --window=1000
Uses 1.3GB of physical memory

I suspect the gcc repo has much longer revision chains than the kernel one since the kernel repo is only a few years old. The Mozilla repo contained revision chains with over 2,000 revisions. Longer revision chains result in longer delta chains.

So what is allocating the extra memory? Either a function of the number of entries in the chain, or related to accessing the chain since a chain with more entries will need to be accessed more times.

I have a 168MB kernel pack now after 15 minutes of four cores at 100%.

Here's another observation, the gcc objects are larger. Kernel has 650K objects in 190MB, gcc has 870K objects in 330MB. Average gcc object is 30% larger. How should the average kernel developer interpret this?