From: Ping Yin <pkufranky@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2011 03:24:57 GMT
Subject: What the best git repack option to avoid out of memory (2G free memory)
Message-ID: <BANLkTimOnuSsSeuZ5QvLQLZBg1QnnDzaNw@mail.gmail.com>

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"?

And what is the best --window and --window-memory option for the 2G
free available memory?