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Re: [PATCH 1/2] Make xmalloc and xrealloc thread-safe

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Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>
Date
Mar 23, 2010, 23:50 UTC
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On Tue, 23 Mar 2010, Fredrik Kuivinen wrote:
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> On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 19:43, Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> wrote:
> > If that is what we are doing, disabling the release of pack windows
> > when malloc fails, why can't we do that all of the time?
> 
> The idea was that most git programs are single threaded, so they can
> still benefit from releasing the pack windows when they are low on
> memory.

This is bobus. The Git program using the most memory is probably pack-objects and it is threaded. Most single-threaded programs don't use close to as much memory.

Nicolas
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Message 4 of 39 in “Make xmalloc and xrealloc thread-safe”
  1. 1/2 Make xmalloc and xrealloc thread-safeFredrik Kuivinen, Mar 23, 2010
  2. Shawn O. PearceMar 23, 2010
  3. Fredrik KuivinenMar 23, 2010
  4. Nicolas PitreMar 23, 2010
  5. Fredrik KuivinenMar 24, 2010
  6. Nicolas PitreMar 24, 2010
  7. Shawn PearceMar 24, 2010
  8. Junio C HamanoMar 24, 2010
  9. Nicolas PitreMar 24, 2010
  10. Shawn PearceMar 24, 2010
  11. Make xmalloc and xrealloc thread-safeNicolas Pitre, Mar 24, 2010
  12. Shawn O. PearceMar 24, 2010
  13. Nicolas PitreMar 24, 2010
  14. Junio C HamanoMar 24, 2010
  15. Junio C HamanoMar 24, 2010
  16. Fredrik KuivinenMar 27, 2010
  17. Nicolas PitreMar 27, 2010
  18. Fredrik KuivinenMar 31, 2010
  19. Make xmalloc and xrealloc thread-safeNicolas Pitre, Apr 7, 2010
  20. Shawn O. PearceApr 7, 2010
  21. Nicolas PitreApr 7, 2010
  22. Shawn PearceApr 7, 2010
  23. Nicolas PitreApr 7, 2010
  24. Shawn PearceApr 7, 2010
  25. Nicolas PitreApr 7, 2010
  26. Fredrik KuivinenApr 7, 2010
  27. Nicolas PitreApr 7, 2010
  28. Fredrik KuivinenApr 7, 2010
  29. Erik Faye-LundApr 7, 2010
  30. Nicolas PitreApr 7, 2010
  31. Sverre RabbelierApr 7, 2010
  32. Fredrik KuivinenApr 7, 2010
  33. Junio C HamanoApr 7, 2010
  34. Johannes SixtApr 7, 2010
  35. Thread-safe xmalloc and xrealloc needs a recursive mutexJohannes Sixt, Apr 8, 2010
  36. Fredrik KuivinenApr 8, 2010
  37. Junio C HamanoApr 7, 2010
  38. 2/2 Make sha1_to_hex thread-safeFredrik Kuivinen, Mar 23, 2010
  39. Johannes SixtMar 23, 2010

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