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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>, git <git@vger.kernel.org>,
	Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Subject: Re: gc --aggressive
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2012 15:18:49 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120417221849.GA11936@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vr4vmm29z.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 03:17:28PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> > How many cores are there on this box? Have you tried setting
> > pack.windowMemory to (12 / # of cores) or thereabouts?
> 
> Hrm, from the end-user's point of view, it appears that pack.windowMemory
> ought to mean the total without having to worry about the division of it
> across threads (which the implementation should be responsible for).

Agreed. I had to look in the code to check which it meant. I'm not sure
we can change it without regressing existing users, though.

-Peff

  reply	other threads:[~2012-04-17 22:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-04-17 16:16 gc --aggressive Jay Soffian
2012-04-17 17:53 ` Jay Soffian
2012-04-17 20:52   ` Matthieu Moy
2012-04-17 21:58     ` Jeff King
2012-04-28 12:25     ` Jeff King
2012-04-28 17:11       ` Nicolas Pitre
2012-04-29 11:34         ` Jeff King
2012-04-29 13:53           ` Nicolas Pitre
2012-05-01 16:28             ` Jeff King
2012-05-01 17:16               ` Jeff King
2012-05-01 17:59                 ` Nicolas Pitre
2012-05-01 18:47                   ` Junio C Hamano
2012-05-01 19:22                     ` Nicolas Pitre
2012-05-01 20:01                     ` Jeff King
2012-05-01 19:35                   ` Jeff King
2012-05-01 20:02                     ` Nicolas Pitre
2012-05-01 17:17               ` Nicolas Pitre
2012-05-01 17:22                 ` Jeff King
2012-05-01 17:47                   ` Nicolas Pitre
2012-04-28 16:56   ` Nicolas Pitre
2012-04-17 22:08 ` Jeff King
2012-04-17 22:17   ` Junio C Hamano
2012-04-17 22:18     ` Jeff King [this message]
2012-04-17 22:34       ` Junio C Hamano
2012-04-28 16:42         ` Nicolas Pitre
2012-04-18  8:49       ` Andreas Ericsson

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