Re: git annotate runs out of memory

From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Date: Dec 11, 2007, 17:47 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.0.99999.0712111245260.555@xanadu.home>
In-Reply-To: <4aca3dc20712110933i636342fbifb15171d3e3cafb3@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, 11 Dec 2007, Daniel Berlin wrote:

> On the gcc repository (which is now a 234 meg pack for me), git
> annotate ChangeLog takes > 800 meg of memory (I stopped it at about
> 1.6 gig, since it started swapping my machine).
> I assume it will run out of memory.  I stopped it after 2 minutes.

And I bet this is the exact same issue as the repack one.

Do you still have the 2.1GB pack around? I bet annotate would eat much less memory in that case.

Nicolas

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