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What the best git repack option to avoid out of memory (2G free memory)

Subject: What the best git repack option to avoid out of memory (2G free memory)

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2 messages between Apr 17, 2011 and Apr 17, 2011.

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Ping Yin· Apr 17, 2011, 03:24 UTC · lore

When "gc --auto --aggressive --prune" android platform/prebuilt.git, i encountered the following error:

Auto packing the repository for optimum performance. warning: suboptimal pack - out of memory fatal: Out of memory, malloc failed error: failed to run repack

I have 2G free memory available and found the --window and --window-memory option in git repack. However, i wonder how to compute the max memory git-repack will use, is it "window * window-memory"?

And what is the best --window and --window-memory option for the 2G free available memory?

Ping Yin· Apr 17, 2011, 03:32 UTC · re: Ping Yin · lore

Re: What the best git repack option to avoid out of memory (2G free memory)

On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 11:24 AM, Ping Yin <pkufranky@gmail.com> wrote:

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> When "gc --auto --aggressive --prune" android platform/prebuilt.git, i
> encountered the following error:
>
> Auto packing the repository for optimum performance.
> warning: suboptimal pack - out of memory
> fatal: Out of memory, malloc failed
> error: failed to run repack
>
> I have 2G free memory available and found the --window and
> --window-memory option in git repack. However, i wonder how to compute
> the max memory git-repack will use, is it "window * window-memory"?
>

Or "window * windowMemory * threads"?