Re: cloning the linxu kernel repo at a VPS with small RAM

[Dragan Simic <dsimic@manjaro.org>]

On 2024-02-08 21:16, Dragan Simic wrote:
> On 2024-02-08 18:32, Toralf Förster wrote:
>> Situation:
>> 
>> The command
>>     git clone
>> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
>> fails at a virtual server with about 2 GiB RAM under a recent Debian
>> bookworm with git 2.39.2. What works for me:
>>       git clone --depth=1
>> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable
>>       cd ./linux
>>       git config gc.auto 0
>>       git config pack.threads 1
>>       git fetch --tags
>> as seen in [1].
>> 
>> Q:
>> I do wonder if Git could automatically try to deal with only 1.5 GiB
>> available RAM?
> 
> Here's an excerpt from my ~/.bashrc, which sets the things up
> on my Pinebook Pro laptop with an RK3399 SoC and 4 GB of RAM,
> which is also thermally constrained:
> 
> # Missing nproc(1) is handled properly
> REASONABLE_THREADS=$(nproc 2> /dev/null || echo 1)
> REASONABLE_THREADS=$((${REASONABLE_THREADS} / 2))
> ((${REASONABLE_THREADS} == 0)) && REASONABLE_THREADS=1
> 
> export GIT_CONFIG_COUNT=3
> export GIT_CONFIG_KEY_0='grep.threads'
> export GIT_CONFIG_VALUE_0=${REASONABLE_THREADS}
> export GIT_CONFIG_KEY_1='index.threads'
> export GIT_CONFIG_VALUE_1=${REASONABLE_THREADS}
> export GIT_CONFIG_KEY_2='pack.threads'
> export GIT_CONFIG_VALUE_2=${REASONABLE_THREADS}
> 
> export ZSTD_NBTHREADS=${REASONABLE_THREADS}
> unset REASONABLE_THREADS
> 
> Obviously, this does a bit more than configuring git only.
> 
> Perhaps modifying this to additionally take the amount of RAM
> into the calculation of REASONABLE_THREADS could be a solution
> for your use case?

Actually, perhaps we could provide the following files as part
of the git project, which would take the above-described approach,
and let the distributions package them:

  - /etc/profile.d/git.sh
  - /etc/profile.d/git.csh

If everyone agrees, I'd we willing to take a crack on these.
Of course, all suggestions and thoughts are more than welcome.