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gitk memory usage

From
Julian Phillips <julian@quantumfyre.co.uk>
Date
Jan 16, 2007, 15:49 UTC
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<Pine.LNX.4.64.0701161543260.19083@reaper.quantumfyre.co.uk>

I wanted to have a quick look at the commits that had been made on a particular branch, and rather than use git log I thought I would try gitk.

I was rather surprised to find that after running "gitk <start_of_branch_tag>..<branch_head>" (which showed a grand total of 4 commits) wish had a virtual size of ~1.1G - which on a machine with 1G physical RAM is not a good thing.

Does anyone know if this is to be expected from a large repository (~2.5G packed), or do I have a buggy version of wish installed?

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Julian

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  1. Julian PhillipsJan 16, 2007

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