From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Brown Subject: Excessive memory consumption. Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 08:43:53 -0700 Message-ID: <20080317154353.GA9062@old.davidb.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Mar 17 16:44:53 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JbHVv-0003T7-GI for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Mon, 17 Mar 2008 16:44:39 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753409AbYCQPnz (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Mar 2008 11:43:55 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753423AbYCQPny (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Mar 2008 11:43:54 -0400 Received: from mail.davidb.org ([66.93.32.219]:47853 "EHLO mail.davidb.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751445AbYCQPny (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Mar 2008 11:43:54 -0400 Received: from davidb by mail.davidb.org with local (Exim 4.69 #1 (Debian)) id 1JbHVB-0002TG-HL for ; Mon, 17 Mar 2008 08:43:53 -0700 Mail-Followup-To: git@vger.kernel.org Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: I'm working with a repository containing a large number of revisions (it has the full 2.6 kernel history) along with a bunch of large tarfiles of prebuilt images (basically firmware images). These tarfiles are about 50MB and are updated frequently. I'm trying to figure out how to limit memory consumption when fetching from this repo. The repo lives on a network drive, and during the "remote: Compressing objects: ..." phase, git-pack-objects quickly grows to 3 or more GB in size. I've tried setting pack.windowMemory = 512m, and pack.deltaCacheLimit = 512m. Any other suggested things to try? This is running 1.5.4.3. Thanks, David