From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2008 03:10:06 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] RFC: git lazy clone proof-of-concept
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.1.00.0802092200350.2732@xanadu.home>
In-Reply-To: <200802091627.25913.kendy@suse.cz>

On Sat, 9 Feb 2008, Jan Holesovsky wrote:

> On Friday 08 February 2008 20:00, Jakub Narebski wrote:
> 
> > Both Mozilla import, and GCC import were packed below 0.5 GB. Warning:
> > you would need machine with large amount of memory to repack it
> > tightly in sensible time!
> 
> As I answered elsewhere, unfortunately it goes out of memory even on 8G 
> machine (x86-64), so...  But still trying.

Try setting the following config variables as follows:

	git config pack.deltaCacheLimit 1
	git config pack.deltaCacheSize 1
	git config pack.windowMemory 1g

That should help keeping memory usage somewhat bounded.


Nicolas