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Re: gc getting called on each git command ... what's wrong?

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Geoff Russell <geoffrey.russell@gmail.com>
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Jun 16, 2011, 01:46 UTC
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2011/6/16 Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
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Some time ago (31/8/2010) I had a problem which seemed to be caused by large packs (>4GB), you can find it in the git list with a subject of "Large pack causes git clone failures ... what to do?"

Anyway, I set packSizeLimit and fiddled around for a bit ... eventually the problem went away when I moved the central repository to another machine with less load and more memory. At which point I gave a sigh of relief and forgot to remove the packSizeLimit until recently bitten. But the original problem was probably nothing to do with large packs and hasn't recurred.

Cheers, Geoff.

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