From: Ken Pratt <ken@kenpratt.net>
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 19:29:06 GMT
Subject: Re: pack operation is thrashing my server
Message-ID: <a6b6acf60808111229u72ffad66kb7a253f2fef44654@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20080811192208.GK26363@spearce.org>

> Looking at /proc/meminfo only works on Linux, and maybe some other
> OSes which support a /proc like design.  But even then we don't
> really know how much we are competing with other active processes
> and how much memory we can use.

Could we create a git config variable to specify the maximumum amoung
memory to mmap? Any if that variable wasn't explicitly set, it would
fall back on looking at /proc/meminfo?