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From: bdowning@lavos.net (Brian Downing)
Subject: Re: [PATCH] pack-objects: only throw away data during memory pressure
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 11:17:13 -0600
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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