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From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] pack-objects: only throw away data during memory
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Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 15:20:23 +0000 (GMT)
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Cc: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>, git@vger.kernel.org
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Hi,

On Mon, 11 Feb 2008, Martin Koegler wrote:

> What about this not really tested patch for dealing with memory pressure 
> in git-pack-objects?
> 
> It will slow down the repack in the case of memory pressure, but missing 
> memory will not affect the results.

It almost helped:

$ /usr/bin/time git repack -a -d -f --window=250 --depth=250
Counting objects: 2477715, done.
fatal: Out of memory, malloc failed411764)
Command exited with non-zero status 1
10050.12user 240.63system 2:53:37elapsed 98%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 
0maxresident)k
0inputs+0outputs (29555major+94032945minor)pagefaults 0swaps

So, it ran longer until it ran out of memory.

Ciao,
Dscho