On Sun, Apr 04, 2010 at 04:38:50PM -0400, Jeff King wrote: > I packed Frans' sample kernel repo with "git gc --aggressive" last > night. It did finish after about 9 hours. I didn't take memory usage > measurements, but here's what time said: > > real 535m38.898s > user 216m46.437s > sys 0m24.186s > > That's 3.6 hours of CPU time over almost 9 hours (on a dual-core > machine). The non-agressive pack was about 680M, and the result was > 480M. The machine has 2G of RAM, and not much else running. So I would > really not expect there to be much disk I/O required, but clearly we > were waiting quite a bit. > > I'll try tweaking a few of the pack memory limits and try again. Hmm, this may be relevant: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/67791/focus=94797 In my experiments, memory usage is increasing but valgrind doesn't leaks. So perhaps it is fragmentation in the memory allocator. -Peff -- 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