Something is broken in repack

[Nicolas Pitre]

On Tue, 11 Dec 2007, Nicolas Pitre wrote:

> OK, here's something else for you to try:
> 
> 	core.deltabasecachelimit=0
> 	pack.threads=2
> 	pack.deltacachesize=1
> 
> With that I'm able to repack the small gcc pack on my machine with 1GB 
> of ram using:
> 
> 	git repack -a -f -d --window=250 --depth=250
> 
> and top reports a ~700m virt and ~500m res without hitting swap at all.
> It is only at 25% so far, but I was unable to get that far before.

Well, around 55% memory usage skyrocketed to 1.6GB and the system went 
deep into swap.  So I restarted it with no threads.

Nicolas (even more puzzled)