From: Ken Pratt Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 19:13:00 GMT Subject: Re: pack operation is thrashing my server Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20080811150150.GC26363@spearce.org> > What is the largest object in that repository? Do you have a > rough guess? You said earlier: > >> The remote repository is bare, and is 180MB in size (says du), with >> 1824 objects. > > That implies there is at least one really large object in that > repository. The average of 101KB per object is not going to be > a correct figure here as most commits and trees are _very_ tiny. > It must be a large object. Those big objects are going to consume > a lot of memory if they get inflated in memory. Largest object is ~150MB, and there are a couple 5-10MB objects as well. > You said earlier this was Git 1.5.6.4. I recently fixed a bug in > the code that reads data from packs to prevent it from blowing out > memory usage, but that bug fix was included in 1.5.6.4. I tried upgrading to 1.5.6.5 as well, but that didn't help. > On the up side, packing should only be consuming huge memory like > this when it needs to move loose objects into a pack file. I think > Martin Langhoff suggested packing this on your laptop then using > rsync over SSH to copy the pack file and .idx file to the server, so > the server didn't have to spend time figuring out the deltas itself. Unfortunately, that will only work as a band-aid solution for my workflow. I think I'll have to limit the file size in the repository to something that the server can handle.