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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Phil Susi <psusi@ubuntu.com>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: git-repack keeps running out of memory
Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2015 16:58:54 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150601205854.GA21144@peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <556CAD64.8000208@ubuntu.com>

On Mon, Jun 01, 2015 at 03:07:16PM -0400, Phil Susi wrote:

> It's more the --window-memory argument that is important here: it is
> supposed to prevent exactly this problem.  I guess I tried adding the
> --max-pack-size as well on the off chance that it would help.

How many processors do you have? The window-memory is per-thread. Try
with --threads=1.

-Peff

  reply	other threads:[~2015-06-01 20:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-06-01 18:39 git-repack keeps running out of memory Phil Susi
2015-06-01 18:43 ` Junio C Hamano
2015-06-01 19:07   ` Phil Susi
2015-06-01 20:58     ` Jeff King [this message]
2015-06-02  0:04       ` Phillip Susi

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