From: Duy Nguyen Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2015 12:32:19 GMT Subject: Re: low memory system to clone larger repo Message-ID: In-Reply-To: On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 11:10 PM, matthew sporleder wrote: > I am attempting to clone this repo: https://github.com/jsonn/src/ This repo has 3.4M objects. Basic book keeping would cost 200MB (in practice it'll be higher because I'm assuming no deltas in my calculation). On my 64-bit system, it already uses 400+ MB at the beginning of delta resolving phase, and is about 500MB during. 32-bit systems cost less but I doubt we could keep it within 256 MB limit. I think you just need more powerful machines for a repo this size. Also, they have some large files (udivmodti4_test.c 16MB, MD5SUMS 6MB..) These giant files could make index-pack use more memory especially if they are deltified. If you repack the repo with core.bigFileThreshold about 1-2MB, then clone, you may get a better memory consumption, but at the cost of bigger packs. -- Duy