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From: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
To: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Cc: Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>,
	weigelt@metux.de, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: large files and low memory
Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2010 17:59:34 +0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTik1kzzzOKFaJCWtwiYf5Vz8oNjZXD+-SAq-ZvAa@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101004191657.GC6466@burratino>

On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 2:16 AM, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> wrote:
> Shawn Pearce wrote:
>
>> This change only removes the deflate copy.  But due to the SHA-1
>> consistency issue I alluded to earlier, I think we're still making a
>> full copy of the file in memory before we SHA-1 it or deflate it.
>
> Hmm, I _think_ we still use mmap for that (which is why 748af44c needs
> to compare the sha1 before and after).

Just tried valgrind massif on a 200MB file with master. It used ~270kb
heap. I haven't tested but I believe git-checkout will keep the whole
inflated copy in memory. So git-add alone does not help much.
-- 
Duy

  reply	other threads:[~2010-10-05 11:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-10-04  9:20 large files and low memory Enrico Weigelt
2010-10-04 18:05 ` Shawn Pearce
2010-10-04 18:24   ` Joshua Jensen
2010-10-04 18:57     ` Shawn Pearce
2010-10-05  0:59       ` Enrico Weigelt
2010-10-05  7:41         ` Enrico Weigelt
2010-10-05  8:01           ` Matthieu Moy
2010-10-05  8:17             ` Enrico Weigelt
2010-10-05 11:29               ` Alex Riesen
2010-10-05 11:38                 ` Matthieu Moy
2010-10-05 11:55                   ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2010-10-05 16:42                     ` Junio C Hamano
2010-10-05 10:13           ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2010-10-05 19:12             ` Nicolas Pitre
2010-10-04 18:58   ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-10-04 19:11     ` Shawn Pearce
2010-10-04 19:16       ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-10-05 10:59         ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy [this message]
2010-10-05 20:17         ` Nicolas Pitre
2010-10-05 20:34           ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-10-05 21:11             ` Nicolas Pitre
2010-10-05  0:57     ` Enrico Weigelt
2010-10-05  1:07       ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-10-05  1:10       ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-10-05  7:35         ` Enrico Weigelt
2010-10-05 13:47           ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-10-05  0:50   ` Enrico Weigelt
2010-10-05 19:06     ` Nicolas Pitre
2010-10-05 22:51       ` Enrico Weigelt

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