Re: Something is broken in repack

From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Date: Dec 11, 2007, 16:20 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.0.99999.0712111117440.555@xanadu.home>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.0.99999.0712110951070.555@xanadu.home>

On Tue, 11 Dec 2007, Nicolas Pitre wrote:

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> OK, here's something else for you to try:
> 
> 	core.deltabasecachelimit=0
> 	pack.threads=2
> 	pack.deltacachesize=1
> 
> With that I'm able to repack the small gcc pack on my machine with 1GB 
> of ram using:
> 
> 	git repack -a -f -d --window=250 --depth=250
> 
> and top reports a ~700m virt and ~500m res without hitting swap at all.
> It is only at 25% so far, but I was unable to get that far before.

Well, around 55% memory usage skyrocketed to 1.6GB and the system went deep into swap. So I restarted it with no threads.

Nicolas (even more puzzled)