From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 18:01:41 GMT
Subject: Re: git annotate runs out of memory
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.0.99999.0712111259120.555@xanadu.home>
In-Reply-To: <4aca3dc20712110953h13e3c33ftb310609bbac6a0a8@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, 11 Dec 2007, Daniel Berlin wrote:

> On 12/11/07, Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> I do not, but i could remake it in a few days if it would help

Well, depending on the amount of RAM in your machine, you might even not 
be able to remake it at the moment.  I currently can't reproduce it 
myself due to the same out-of-memory issue.


Nicolas