From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 15:20:23 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] pack-objects: only throw away data during memory pressure
Message-ID: <alpine.LSU.1.00.0802111519300.3870@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <120271478556-git-send-email-mkoegler@auto.tuwien.ac.at>

Hi,

On Mon, 11 Feb 2008, Martin Koegler wrote:

> What about this not really tested patch for dealing with memory pressure 
> in git-pack-objects?
> 
> It will slow down the repack in the case of memory pressure, but missing 
> memory will not affect the results.

It almost helped:

$ /usr/bin/time git repack -a -d -f --window=250 --depth=250
Counting objects: 2477715, done.
fatal: Out of memory, malloc failed411764)
Command exited with non-zero status 1
10050.12user 240.63system 2:53:37elapsed 98%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 
0maxresident)k
0inputs+0outputs (29555major+94032945minor)pagefaults 0swaps

So, it ran longer until it ran out of memory.

Ciao,
Dscho