From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
To: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org>,
Git ML <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: THREADED_DELTA_SEARCH
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 22:13:52 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080710201352.GA3717@blimp.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.1.10.0807101212000.12484@xanadu.home>
Nicolas Pitre, Thu, Jul 10, 2008 18:21:09 +0200:
> On Thu, 10 Jul 2008, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> > (2) exploding memory use, suspected to be due to malloc pool
> > fragmentation under multithreading.
...
> > but I do not
> > recall the latter issue has been addressed.
>
> Well, for "standard" repositories such as the Linux kernel, things
> always worked just fine. And commit eac12e2d is apparently helping a
> lot with the remaining odd cases. And if someone has problems due to
> this then a simple 'git config --global pack.threads 1' would restore
> the non threaded behavior.
Have you ever seen what happens to Windows XP on memory shortage?
It freezes *hard*. Not a good behaviour for _default_ settings.
And if someone has no problems with memory, then a simple "git config
pack.threads 100" would restore the threaded behaviour for a
repository which supposedly will never grow up.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-10 20:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-10 7:53 THREADED_DELTA_SEARCH Pierre Habouzit
2008-07-10 8:01 ` THREADED_DELTA_SEARCH Johannes Sixt
2008-07-10 16:50 ` THREADED_DELTA_SEARCH Andreas Ericsson
2008-07-10 8:51 ` THREADED_DELTA_SEARCH Jakub Narebski
2008-07-10 9:33 ` THREADED_DELTA_SEARCH Pierre Habouzit
2008-07-10 15:34 ` THREADED_DELTA_SEARCH Junio C Hamano
2008-07-10 16:21 ` THREADED_DELTA_SEARCH Nicolas Pitre
2008-07-10 20:13 ` Alex Riesen [this message]
2008-07-10 20:26 ` THREADED_DELTA_SEARCH Nicolas Pitre
2008-07-10 20:29 ` THREADED_DELTA_SEARCH Alex Riesen
2008-07-10 20:36 ` THREADED_DELTA_SEARCH Nicolas Pitre
2008-07-10 22:19 ` THREADED_DELTA_SEARCH Alex Riesen
[not found] ` <alpine.DEB.1.00.0807110032030.3279@eeepc-johanness>
[not found] ` <alpine.LFD.1.10.0807101851520.12484@xanadu.home>
[not found] ` <81b0412b0807102259q1046051bwc513eadb50847675@mail.gmail.com>
2008-07-11 7:41 ` THREADED_DELTA_SEARCH Pierre Habouzit
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