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Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 22:13:52 +0200
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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.