From: bdowning@lavos.net (Brian Downing)
To: Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com>
Cc: Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Reducing the memory footprint
Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2007 18:53:27 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071110005327.GH6212@lavos.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9e4733910711091538h260fbcd2s5783f01e7db4b19a@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 06:38:00PM -0500, Jon Smirl wrote:
> I'm using this config file:
>
> [pack]
> windowMemory = 1M
> deltaCacheSize = 1M
>
> And I have NO_MMAP compiled in.
>
> git is still using over 200MB of memory or address space, my process
> gets killed either way.
I'm assuming it's dying on repacking since you included the pack
parameters.
How big is your biggest object? Even with pack.windowMemory, it still
keeps the last object around to try and delta against (in other words,
the window only shrinks to size 1), which means you have to have room
for it and its delta index.
-bcd
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-11-10 0:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-11-09 23:38 Reducing the memory footprint Jon Smirl
2007-11-10 0:53 ` Brian Downing [this message]
2007-11-10 1:05 ` Jon Smirl
2007-11-10 6:07 ` Jon Smirl
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