From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bahadir Balban Subject: git repack memory limit Date: Wed, 19 May 2010 01:10:13 +0300 Message-ID: <4BF31045.1000700@l4dev.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed May 19 00:43:31 2010 connect(): No such file or directory Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OEVVa-000635-Dj for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Wed, 19 May 2010 00:43:30 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756134Ab0ERWnZ (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 May 2010 18:43:25 -0400 Received: from 17.254.223.67.in-addr.arpa ([67.223.254.17]:45809 "EHLO l4dev.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754493Ab0ERWnY (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 May 2010 18:43:24 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 1972 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Tue, 18 May 2010 18:43:24 EDT Received: from [192.168.2.2] (unknown [78.172.81.157]) by l4dev.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C438F36E12C2 for ; Tue, 18 May 2010 23:10:25 +0100 (BST) User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.24 (X11/20100411) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: I am running git-repack on a server with memory limits. I am seeing the repack spending 400MB and going out of memory. I could not limit repack memory usage in anyway. I tried: git config pack.deltaCacheLimit 1 git config pack.deltaCacheSize 1 git config pack.windowMemory 32m then git repack -a -f -d also I would particularly expect git repack -a -f -d --window-memory=16 to succeed. Using git 1.6.5. Any thoughts? -- Bahadir