On Tue, 23 Mar 2010, Fredrik Kuivinen wrote: > On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 19:43, Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > If that is what we are doing, disabling the release of pack windows > > when malloc fails, why can't we do that all of the time? > > The idea was that most git programs are single threaded, so they can > still benefit from releasing the pack windows when they are low on > memory. This is bobus. The Git program using the most memory is probably pack-objects and it is threaded. Most single-threaded programs don't use close to as much memory. Nicolas -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html