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From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Subject: Re: THREADED_DELTA_SEARCH
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 16:26:03 -0400 (EDT)
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On Thu, 10 Jul 2008, Alex Riesen wrote:

> Nicolas Pitre, Thu, Jul 10, 2008 18:21:09 +0200:
> > On Thu, 10 Jul 2008, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> > >  (2) exploding memory use, suspected to be due to malloc pool
> > >      fragmentation under multithreading.
> ...
> > > but I do not
> > > recall the latter issue has been addressed.
> > 
> > Well, for "standard" repositories such as the Linux kernel, things 
> > always worked just fine.  And commit eac12e2d is apparently helping a 
> > lot with the remaining odd cases.  And if someone has problems due to 
> > this then a simple 'git config --global pack.threads 1' would restore 
> > the non threaded behavior.
> 
> Have you ever seen what happens to Windows XP on memory shortage?

Who said this would be enabled on Windows?


Nicolas