Something is broken in repack

[Jon Smirl]

On 12/11/07, Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> wrote:
> 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)

On the plus side you are seeing what I see, so it proves I am not imagining it.


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