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From: Tomas Carnecky <tom@dbservice.com>
Subject: Re: Excessive mmap [was Git server eats all memory]
Date: Mon, 09 Aug 2010 19:45:19 +0200
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On 8/9/10 6:50 PM, Avery Pennarun wrote:
> On the other hand, perhaps a more important question is: why does git
> feel like it needs to generate entirely new packs for each person
> doing a clone on your system?  Shouldn't it be reusing existing ones
> and just streaming them straight out to the recipient?

Isn't that something that the rev cache is supposed to fix?

tom