So the problem is probably memory fragmentation.
probably.
You might have more joy if you allocated one HUGE chunk immediately on startup to use for the pack, and then kept re-using that chunk.
Well, it is not _one_ chunk. The windows/cygwin abomin...combination may take an issue with this: it seem to copy complete address space at fork, which even for such a small packs I have here takes system down lightly (yes, I tried it). Incidentally, is there a way to cut a big pack into a lot of smaller packs? - 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