From: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>
To: Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com>
Cc: Ken Pratt <ken@kenpratt.net>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: pack operation is thrashing my server
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 08:59:59 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080811155959.GG26363@spearce.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <32541b130808110840p1287426fpeef967a9ff4fb094@mail.gmail.com>
Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 11:01 AM, Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> wrote:
> > On the up side, packing should only be consuming huge memory like
> > this when it needs to move loose objects into a pack file. I think
> > Martin Langhoff suggested packing this on your laptop then using
> > rsync over SSH to copy the pack file and .idx file to the server, so
> > the server didn't have to spend time figuring out the deltas itself.
>
> Do you need to also introduce a ".keep" file to get the benefit from
> this? I had a repo with some very large objects, and it was killing
> my low-memory server *every* time I did "git gc", until I repacked on
> another system, created the .keep file, and rsynced it back. Does
> that make sense?
No, the ".keep" file wouldn't have an impact. Delta reuse (the
feature I was alluding to) works whether or not there is a .keep
file present.
I wonder if your "git gc" was using --aggressive?
--
Shawn.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-11 16:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 80+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-08-10 19:47 pack operation is thrashing my server Ken Pratt
2008-08-10 23:06 ` Martin Langhoff
2008-08-10 23:12 ` Ken Pratt
2008-08-10 23:30 ` Martin Langhoff
2008-08-10 23:34 ` Ken Pratt
2008-08-11 3:04 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-08-11 7:43 ` Ken Pratt
2008-08-11 15:01 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-08-11 15:40 ` Avery Pennarun
2008-08-11 15:59 ` Shawn O. Pearce [this message]
2008-08-11 19:13 ` Ken Pratt
2008-08-11 19:10 ` Andi Kleen
2008-08-11 19:15 ` Ken Pratt
2008-08-13 2:38 ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-08-13 2:50 ` Andi Kleen
2008-08-13 2:57 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-08-11 19:22 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-08-11 19:29 ` Ken Pratt
2008-08-11 19:34 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-08-11 20:10 ` Andi Kleen
2008-08-13 3:12 ` Geert Bosch
2008-08-13 3:15 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-08-13 3:58 ` Geert Bosch
2008-08-13 14:37 ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-08-13 14:56 ` Jakub Narebski
2008-08-13 15:04 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-08-13 15:26 ` David Tweed
2008-08-13 23:54 ` Martin Langhoff
2008-08-14 9:04 ` David Tweed
2008-08-13 16:10 ` Johan Herland
2008-08-13 17:38 ` Ken Pratt
2008-08-13 17:57 ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-08-13 14:35 ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-08-13 14:59 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-08-13 15:43 ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-08-13 15:50 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-08-13 17:04 ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-08-13 17:19 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-08-14 6:33 ` Andreas Ericsson
2008-08-14 10:04 ` Thomas Rast
2008-08-14 10:15 ` Andreas Ericsson
2008-08-14 22:33 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-08-15 1:46 ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-08-14 14:01 ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-08-14 17:21 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-08-14 17:58 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-08-14 19:04 ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-08-14 19:44 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-08-14 21:30 ` Andi Kleen
2008-08-15 16:15 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-08-14 21:50 ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-08-14 23:14 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-08-14 23:39 ` Björn Steinbrink
2008-08-15 0:06 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-08-15 0:25 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-08-16 12:47 ` Björn Steinbrink
2008-08-16 0:34 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-09-07 1:03 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-09-07 1:46 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-09-07 2:33 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-09-07 17:11 ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-09-07 17:41 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-09-07 2:50 ` Jon Smirl
2008-09-07 3:07 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-09-07 3:43 ` Jon Smirl
2008-09-07 4:50 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-09-07 13:58 ` Jon Smirl
2008-09-07 17:08 ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-09-07 20:33 ` Jon Smirl
2008-09-08 14:17 ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-09-08 15:12 ` Jon Smirl
2008-09-08 16:01 ` Jon Smirl
2008-09-07 8:18 ` Andreas Ericsson
2008-09-07 7:45 ` Mike Hommey
2008-08-14 18:38 ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-08-14 18:55 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-08-13 16:01 ` Geert Bosch
2008-08-13 17:13 ` Dana How
2008-08-13 17:26 ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-08-13 12:43 ` Jakub Narebski
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