Re: git-svnimport failed and now git-repack hates me

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Jan 6, 2007, 01:22 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0701051721340.3661@woody.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <7v3b6pc89y.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On Fri, 5 Jan 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> While I have your attention, there is a patch for the sliding
> mmap() thing that raises the mmap window to 1GB (which means a
> pack smaller than that is mmap'ed in its entirety, whle 2.3GB
> pack will be mapped perhaps as three separate chunks) and the
> total mmap window to 8GB (and any overflows we LRU out) on
> places where sizeof(void*) == 8 (i.e. git compiled for 64-bit).
> 
> Currently these limits are 32MB and 256MB respectively on
> platforms with real mmap().
> 
> Do you have any comments on it?

I think it's fine. Most "normal" mmap users hopefully will only use a small portion of the mapped space, adn if they use it all, it means that they needed it all, so..

		Linus