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Re: [PATCH v2] Bump core.deltaBaseCacheLimit to 128MiB

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Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date
Mar 21, 2014, 07:59 UTC
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On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 1:04 PM, David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> wrote:
>> Hmm, doesn't packing need to read existing data?
>
> Judging from the frequent out-of-memory conditions of git gc
> --aggressive, packing is not restrained by deltaBaseCacheLimit.

pack-objects memory usage is more controlled by pack.windowmemory, which defaults to unlimited. Does it make sense to default to half physical memory or something?

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Duy
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  1. Bump core.deltaBaseCacheLimit to 128MiBDavid Kastrup, Mar 19, 2014
  2. Junio C HamanoMar 19, 2014
  3. David KastrupMar 19, 2014
  4. Junio C HamanoMar 19, 2014
  5. Duy NguyenMar 20, 2014
  6. Junio C HamanoMar 20, 2014
  7. David KastrupMar 20, 2014
  8. Junio C HamanoMar 20, 2014
  9. David KastrupMar 21, 2014
  10. Duy NguyenMar 21, 2014
  11. David KastrupMar 21, 2014
  12. Jeff KingMar 20, 2014
  13. David KastrupMar 21, 2014
  14. David KastrupMar 21, 2014

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