From: Ping Yin <pkufranky@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2011 03:32:44 GMT
Subject: Re: What the best git repack option to avoid out of memory (2G free memory)
Message-ID: <BANLkTi=ABGrsUCxpB6fUXCP0477iq=irhw@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTimOnuSsSeuZ5QvLQLZBg1QnnDzaNw@mail.gmail.com>

On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 11:24 AM, Ping Yin <pkufranky@gmail.com> wrote:
> When "gc --auto --aggressive --prune" android platform/prebuilt.git, i
> encountered the following error:
>
> Auto packing the repository for optimum performance.
> warning: suboptimal pack - out of memory
> fatal: Out of memory, malloc failed
> error: failed to run repack
>
> I have 2G free memory available and found the --window and
> --window-memory option in git repack. However, i wonder how to compute
> the max memory git-repack will use, is it "window * window-memory"?
>

Or "window * windowMemory * threads"?