Re: Reducing the memory footprint

["Jon Smirl" <jonsmirl@gmail.com>]

On 11/9/07, Brian Downing <bdowning@lavos.net> wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 06:38:00PM -0500, Jon Smirl wrote:
> > I'm using this config file:
> >
> > [pack]
> >         windowMemory = 1M
> >         deltaCacheSize = 1M
> >
> > And I have NO_MMAP compiled in.
> >
> > git is still using over 200MB of memory or address space, my process
> > gets killed either way.
>
> I'm assuming it's dying on repacking since you included the pack
> parameters.
>
> How big is your biggest object?  Even with pack.windowMemory, it still
> keeps the last object around to try and delta against (in other words,
> the window only shrinks to size 1), which means you have to have room
> for it and its delta index.

It's a Linux kernel repository. Git receive-pack is going over 200MB
and getting zapped.  I don't understand why the process is so large. I
am compiled with -DNO_MMAP.

I think I have a achieved a work around. I rsync'd in my last several
weeks of changes. Now I can 'git push' small amounts of changes
without getting killed.

I'm begging dreamhost to simply install git. Installed commands don't
get zapped.

-- 
Jon Smirl
jonsmirl@gmail.com