From: Duy Nguyen Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2013 12:38:40 GMT Subject: Re: regression in multi-threaded git-pack-index Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20130316114118.GA1940@sigill.intra.peff.net> On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 6:41 PM, Jeff King wrote: > On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 03:42:40PM -0700, Stefan Zager wrote: > >> We have uncovered a regression in this commit: >> >> b8a2486f1524947f232f657e9f2ebf44e3e7a243 What version did you test? We used to have problems with multithreaded index-pack on cywgin because its pread implementation is not thread-safe, see c0f8654 (index-pack: Disable threading on cygwin - 2012-06-26). Not sure if we fall into the same path on Mac, or this is something else.. >> >> The symptom is that 'git fetch' dies with: >> >> error: index-pack died of signal 10 >> fatal: index-pack failed I guess it won't help much, but what if you enable coredump and get a stack trace from it? >> >> I have only been able to reproduce it on a Mac thus far; will try >> ubuntu next. We can make it go away by running: >> >> git config pack.threads 1 -- Duy