From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 03:27:03 GMT
Subject: Re: Something is broken in repack
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.0.99999.0712102225240.555@xanadu.home>
In-Reply-To: <7vlk82hrdt.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Mon, 10 Dec 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> "Jon Smirl" <jonsmirl@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > 95%   530  2.8G - 1,420 total to here, previous was 1,983
> > 100% 1390 2.85G
> > During the writing phase RAM fell to 1.6G
> > What is being freed in the writing phase??
> 
> entry->delta_data is the only thing I can think of that are freed
> in the function that have been allocated much earlier before entering
> the function.

Yet all ->delta-data instances are limited to 256MB according to Jon's 
config.


Nicolas

> 


Nicolas