Re: [PATCH] RFC: git lazy clone proof-of-concept

> Hi,
>
> On Sat, 9 Feb 2008, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
>
> > On Sat, 9 Feb 2008, Jan Holesovsky wrote:
> >
> > > On Friday 08 February 2008 20:00, Jakub Narebski wrote:
> > >
> > > > Both Mozilla import, and GCC import were packed below 0.5 GB. Warning:
> > > > you would need machine with large amount of memory to repack it
> > > > tightly in sensible time!
> > >
> > > As I answered elsewhere, unfortunately it goes out of memory even on 8G
> > > machine (x86-64), so...  But still trying.
> >
> > Try setting the following config variables as follows:
> >
> >       git config pack.deltaCacheLimit 1
> >       git config pack.deltaCacheSize 1
> >       git config pack.windowMemory 1g
> >
> > That should help keeping memory usage somewhat bounded.
>
> I tried that:
>
> $ git config pack.deltaCacheLimit 1
> $ git config pack.deltaCacheSize 1
> $ git config pack.windowMemory 2g
> $ #/usr/bin/time git repack -a -d -f --window=250 --depth=250
> $ du -s objects/
> 2548137 objects/
> $ /usr/bin/time git repack -a -d -f --window=250 --depth=250
> Counting objects: 2477715, done.
> fatal: Out of memory, malloc failed411764)
> Command exited with non-zero status 1
> 9356.95user 53.33system 2:38:58elapsed 98%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata
> 0maxresident)k
> 0inputs+0outputs (31929major+18088744minor)pagefaults 0swaps
>
> Note that this is on a 2.4GHz Quadcode CPU with 3.5GB RAM.

>
> I'm retrying with smaller values, but at over 2.5 hours per try, this is
> getting tedious.
>
> Ciao,
> Dscho
>
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