From: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2014 07:59:41 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Bump core.deltaBaseCacheLimit to 128MiB
Message-ID: <CACsJy8DpnfmyDevqBVpJVwSig2QaeQe9EpjdCk92E1zTeTKKyQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <87y504ccke.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org>

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?
-- 
Duy