From: hasen j <hasan.aljudy@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 19 May 2010 18:45:49 GMT
Subject: Re: git repack memory limit
Message-ID: <AANLkTil4Mh8wMXpHpqkiUmYyLSIR2AbNaM7KvPNzdQj7@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4BF31045.1000700@l4dev.org>

On 18 May 2010 16:10, Bahadir Balban <bahadir@l4dev.org> wrote:
> I am running git-repack on a server with memory limits. I am seeing the
> repack spending 400MB and going out of memory. I could not limit repack
> memory usage in anyway. I tried:
>
> git config pack.deltaCacheLimit 1
> git config pack.deltaCacheSize 1
> git config pack.windowMemory 32m
>
> then git repack -a -f -d
>
> also I would particularly expect git repack -a -f -d --window-memory=16
> to succeed.
>
> Using git 1.6.5. Any thoughts?
>

I ran into a similar situation before.

I believe it loads the entire file to memory, so if you have a single
file that's larger than the available memory, you'll run out of
memory, no matter how you tweak your settings.