From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 23:50:19 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Make xmalloc and xrealloc thread-safe
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1003231945480.31128@xanadu.home>
In-Reply-To: <4c8ef71003231421u789c4332h461c066add0ec7b1@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, 23 Mar 2010, Fredrik Kuivinen wrote:

> 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