From: Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 20:31:23 GMT
Subject: Re: git annotate runs out of memory
Message-ID: <9e4733910712111231x1bbe181ew4f90fc5bb0e87039@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.0.99999.0712111403080.555@xanadu.home>

On 12/11/07, Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Dec 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> > That said, I'll see if I can speed up "git blame" on the gcc repository.
> > It _is_ a fundamentally much more expensive operation than it is for
> > systems that do single-file things.
>
> It has no excuse for eating up to 1.6GB or RAM though.  That's plainly
> wrong.

 git blame gcc/ChangeLog
It needs 2.25GB of RAM to run without swapping

That is pretty close to the same number the repack needs.

-- 
Jon Smirl
jonsmirl@gmail.com