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From: bdowning@lavos.net (Brian Downing)
To: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Cc: Martin Koegler <mkoegler@auto.tuwien.ac.at>,
	Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>,
	git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] pack-objects: only throw away data during memory pressure
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 11:17:13 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080212171713.GH27535@lavos.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080212171403.GG27535@lavos.net>

On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 11:14:03AM -0600, Brian Downing wrote:
> Sometimes I want a bounded window size with bounded memory usage; i.e. a
> maximum of 50 entries OR 256 megs worth.  That's for everyday repacking
> of my troublesome repository; without the window going down to less than
> 10 or so for the large files, it still takes way too long, but doing the
> whole thing at 10 makes for very poor packing.

(Yeah, the default depth is 10.  I admit to shooting from the hip a bit
in my description above, but I do really use that mode of operation, and
wouldn't like to lose it.)

-bcd

  reply	other threads:[~2008-02-12 17:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-02-11  7:26 [PATCH] pack-objects: only throw away data during memory pressure Martin Koegler
2008-02-11 15:20 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-02-11 16:00   ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-02-11 16:08     ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-02-11 16:00 ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-02-12  8:22   ` Brian Downing
2008-02-12 14:26     ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-02-12 17:14       ` Brian Downing
2008-02-12 17:17         ` Brian Downing [this message]
2008-02-12 17:28         ` Brian Downing
2008-02-12 17:39         ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-02-13  1:48   ` Nicolas Pitre

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