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From: Ping Yin <pkufranky@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: What the best git repack option to avoid out of memory (2G free memory)
Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2011 11:32:44 +0800
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On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 11:24 AM, Ping Yin <pkufranky@gmail.com> wrote:
> When "gc --auto --aggressive --prune" android platform/prebuilt.git, i
> encountered the following error:
>
> Auto packing the repository for optimum performance.
> warning: suboptimal pack - out of memory
> fatal: Out of memory, malloc failed
> error: failed to run repack
>
> I have 2G free memory available and found the --window and
> --window-memory option in git repack. However, i wonder how to compute
> the max memory git-repack will use, is it "window * window-memory"?
>

Or "window * windowMemory * threads"?