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Subject: Re: pack operation is thrashing my server
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 12:29:06 -0700
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> Looking at /proc/meminfo only works on Linux, and maybe some other
> OSes which support a /proc like design.  But even then we don't
> really know how much we are competing with other active processes
> and how much memory we can use.

Could we create a git config variable to specify the maximumum amoung
memory to mmap? Any if that variable wasn't explicitly set, it would
fall back on looking at /proc/meminfo?